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From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <gilbertd@treblig.org>
To: Steve Cole <coles@vip.kos.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Dual Athlon 2000 XP MP nightmare
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 23:58:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020615225842.GC610@gallifrey> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <003101c214bb$0275a720$0a00000a@kos.net>

* Steve Cole (coles@vip.kos.net) wrote:
>  I'm not sure that what I'm experiencing is a kernel problem, but I thought
> I  would stick my foot in the door nonetheless, since I have no real
> indication of what is going on.

Hi Steve,

> I have a dual Athlon 2000+ XP MP system.  It's crashing very frequently and
> looks to be getting worse.  It seems to crash less with 2.4.19pre10-ac2
> which supports the 760 bus and 744x IDE controller, but with something that
> is as intermittent as this, who can tell?

Can I clarify something - are the processors XP's or MP's ?  If they are
XP's well then that isn't a supported operation and might well not work
relliably.

>  I get EIP errors and Null pointer exception errors during full kernel
> panics.  I've had a lot of file system corruption in ReiserFS originally and
> now in EXT2, both fixable though Reiser seemed worse.  Uptime is measured in
> hours - usually 12 or more, sometimes two or three.

Have you tried running this single processor? Is it reliable?

Dave
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  reply	other threads:[~2002-06-15 22:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-06-15 22:21 Dual Athlon 2000 XP MP nightmare Steve Cole
2002-06-15 22:58 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert [this message]
2002-06-17  2:30   ` Shawn
2002-06-17  2:35     ` Shawn
2002-06-16  0:37 ` Austin Gonyou
2002-06-16  8:30 ` Mark Hounschell
2002-06-16 12:29   ` Allan Sandfeld Jensen
2002-06-19 12:00     ` Bill Davidsen
2002-06-16 21:06   ` Austin Gonyou
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-06-16  0:54 Hugh
2002-06-16  6:35 ` Austin Gonyou
2002-06-18  9:19 Hugh

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