From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 28 May 2001 14:00:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 28 May 2001 13:59:50 -0400 Received: from smtp5vepub.gte.net ([206.46.170.26]:57700 "EHLO smtp5ve.mailsrvcs.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 28 May 2001 13:59:37 -0400 From: George France Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 13:59:27 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.1.99] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Andrea Arcangeli , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Richard Henderson To: Jay Thorne In-Reply-To: <990827407.27355.2.camel@gracie.userfriendly.org> <01052523163402.28075@shadowfax.middleearth> <991071923.25870.0.camel@gracie.userfriendly.org> In-Reply-To: <991071923.25870.0.camel@gracie.userfriendly.org> Subject: Re: [SOLVED] PROBLEM: Alpha SMP Low Outbound Bandwidth MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01052813592702.17841@shadowfax.middleearth> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Monday 28 May 2001 13:45, Jay Thorne wrote: > Problem solved, thanks to the rawhide patch from Richard Henderson > (rth@twiddle.net) posted on Sunday. Performance is ~10megs/second both > directions, using tulip, de4x5 or via-rhine. Well Done, Richard. > > Using 2.4.4-ac15 it works fine. I'm now trying 2.4.5 > > Andrea, 2.4.5aa1 oopses just after probing the scsi cards. I've tried > the 2.4.4 series aa patches and had similar failure on boot. > > Its too fast to see the error, so I'm building a serial console version > to capture it. Is an easy way to tell an alpha to stop dead so I can > copy the oops? try adding 'console=ttyS0,9600 console=tty0' to the comand line args passed to the kernel at boot time. if you are using SRM and aboot, 'b -fl i' followed by the 'l' command, then a 'b' command. regards, --George