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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next prev parent 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
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2002-06-16 0:54 Hugh
2002-06-16 6:35 ` Austin Gonyou
2002-06-18 9:19 Hugh
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