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   .os2.setup.misc:647   
   From: Peter Brown    
      
      
      
   Dariusz Piatkowski wrote:   
   > Hi Peter!   
   >   
   > On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 15:36:39 UTC, Peter Brown   
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >> Hi Dariusz   
   >>   
   >> Dariusz Piatkowski wrote:   
   >>> Hi Folks!   
   >>>   
   >>> 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.   
   >>>   
   >>> So...what's the config I'm using? Warp4.52, CP2 with FP6 applied, using   
   the SMP   
   >>> doscall, os2krnl, etc, PSD=OS2APIC.PSD /P=4 /APIC, although I have tried a   
   bunch   
   >>> of different /PIC and /PREC options, none of which had made a difference.   
   >>   
   >> Maybe os2apic.psd is not that capable with modern hardware.   
   >>   
   >> You may need to purchase eCS to get current apic support - when eCS   
   >> finally get a good working version of their acpi.psd released.   
   >>   
   >> You could try using markexe.exe (from the os/2 toolkit) or execmode.exe   
   >> (should be in bootdrive:\os2) to mark apps that do not work with>  1 cpu   
   >> and, hopefully, overcome problems.   
   >   
   > Yes, I suspect OS2APIC has some limitations as well. My MSI BIOS supports MPS   
   > table configuration in 1.1 or 1.4 version...I'm currently trying both   
   > combinations...so far not much luck though.   
   >   
   > eCS? Yes....but only if the general concensus out there in the OS2 community   
   is   
   > that the ACPI is stable enough...so far I haven't seen that, but I'm   
   certainly   
   > open to this possibility.   
   >   
   > I have both of the EXE marking utilities here...tried them both, the known   
   > applications are still locking the system...so I'm guessing the problem lies   
   > somewhere underneath the covers...meaning, setting a single CPU execution   
   mode   
   > only and shutting off the remaining CPUs do not seen to have the same result.   
   >   
   > Thanks!   
      
      
      
   I wonder if the updated doscall1.dll file would help - yet another eCS    
   "goodie" that is not yet publicly available.   
      
   As I understand it it cures problems with SMP "spinlocks" - and, no, I    
   have no idea what that means. I do know that I have been experiencing    
   less system hangs at boot when the Desktop should be starting since    
   installing this new doscall1.dll file though.   
      
      
   Regards   
      
   Pete   
      
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