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Skriven 2011-11-27 19:17:00 av Peter Brown
Ärende: Re: Fixpak file mapping - how to get a good DEBUG/TRACE/DUMP ?
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From: Peter Brown <losepeteSPAM-ME-NOT@ntlworld.com>



Dariusz Piatkowski wrote:
> Hi Peter!
>
> On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 15:36:39 UTC, Peter
Brown<losepeteSPAM-ME-NOT@ntlworld.com>
> 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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