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   From: "Dariusz Piatkowski"    
      
   Hi Alex!   
      
   On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 12:36:01 UTC, "Alex Taylor"     
   wrote:   
      
   > On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 14:59:36 UTC, "Dariusz Piatkowski"    
   >  wrote:   
   >    
   > > Ever since my upgrade to the '21st century computing' (lol - a move from   
   an AMD    
   > > Barton to Phenom X4 setup) I have been experiencing an odd freeze here and    
   > > there. These are not hard locks, rather the WPS stops responding, mouse   
   cursor    
   > > is still OK, CPU monitor (v 1.17) chugs along, but the WPS interface seems   
   to    
   > > stop working. This is always brought on by something a given application   
   has    
   > > attempted to do, once such app is AVXCAT, which I would love to use. The   
   2nd on    
   > > is the latest PMView install program (WPI based). Both will soft-lock the   
   WPS,    
   > > only CAD helps.   
   > >    
   > > One thing I have been able to narrow this down to is the utilization of   
   the 4    
   > > cores...if I shut-off the 3 remaining cores (using setproc utility) I am   
   able to   
   > > breeze through these processes.   
   >    
   >    
   > This sounds very similar to what happens on my new Phenom X4 system.   
   > In my case, it's SeaMonkey generally that causes the lockup, although   
   > whether or not that's simply because it's the program I've been using   
   > most often on that system or not, I don't know.  For me it seems to be   
   > a pretty hard lockup in that nothing responds and I need to reboot.   
   >    
   > For me, too, the "fix" is to either disable all but the first core in   
   > the BIOS, or disable SMP.  (If I leave two cores running, the problem   
   > happens less often than it does with four, but still happens.)   
   >    
   > I've tried with both OS2APIC.PSD and ACPI.PSD, both exhibit the exact   
   > same behaviour here.   
   >    
   > Interestingly, however, I've observed the SAME behaviour under Windows XP   
   > on the same box.  In this case, running on two cores instead of four    
   > virtually eliminates the problem under Windows, although I have seen it    
   > at least once.   
   >    
   > This has led me to suspect a hardware problem rather than an OS one.   
   > OTOH, if you have the same issue, maybe I'm wrong about that.   
      
      
   I do not have a working install of Windows here...well, I used to, but haven't    
   ventured into that partition for quite some time now...not since the overall    
   hardware change, so the Windows device drivers certainly need to be re-worked,    
   etc. I do need to do this sometime, just so I can have some type of a   
   comparison   
   if anything.   
      
   I had used 'OS/2 API Trace' v2.45.40 (by Dave Blaschke) on AVxCAT   
   specifically.    
   Great tool, however I have found that as the freeze occurs the trace (which is    
   being logged into a disk file) just stops dead smack in the middle of a    
   stream...so its' as if something gets completely blocked and even the API   
   Trace    
   can no longer write to the disk.   
      
   There are a couple of things I want to try with the trace, beyond this I am    
   thinking of attempting the DEBUG kernel run as I still have my old OS2 machine    
   standing by. This is all new to me though...so time will tell if I can make   
   any    
   progress on this.   
      
   Thanks!   
      
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