Re: Dual athlon XP 1800 problems

[Kevin Brosius <cobra@compuserve.com>]

> 
> 8. Rebooted again, now it's up and running and appears stable (still 1 
> CPU), so I took it up to full init 5 and it stayed up (and so I'm 
> writing this email :-)  Once or twice seemed to stall again for 1-2 
> seconds (interrupt storm ???) but recovered.
> 
> Anyone have suggestions? I'm thinking to leave it running and see if it 
> stays up. Smells of a hardware issue, but also the BIOS seems a bit 
> funny (there is a message in the Help which says "this setting for debug 
> only - remove for production" !!)


I've noticed some oddities on 2.4.19 with a dual Athlon Tyan S2462 that
look like stalls under heavy load.  If you're really curious, you might
try 2.4.18, as this was not a problem there. (I'm running SuSE kernels
shipped with SuSE 8.0 and 8.1, although I saw similar trouble with a
stock 2.4.19 build and stopped using it.  The stalls are only minor
though, so I haven't investigated.  Maybe they are worse on that
motherboard.)

-- 
Kevin