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From: Josh McKinney <forming@charter.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: nforce2 random lockups - still no solution ?
Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2003 02:34:09 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031108073409.GA7970@forming> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1068234006.3fabf5162fd7b@horde.sandall.us>

On approximately Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 11:40:06AM -0800, Eric Sandall wrote:
> Quoting Samuel Kvasnica <samuel.kvasnica@tuwien.ac.at>:
> > It was local APIC ! After recompiling 2.4.22 without local apic 
> > everything works smoothly since several  weeks. I wonder when there'll 
> > be a kernel
> > patch that really solves these nforce2/amd issues.
> > Sam
> 
> Disabling local APIC on 2.6.0-test9-mm2 also fixes this (I haven't tried on
> earlier kernels).
> 
> -sandalle
> 

I am seeing the same thing here.  Disk activity and APIC don't seem to
do well.  What kind of performance hit if any are we taking by disabling
APIC?

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      reply	other threads:[~2003-11-08  7:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-21 18:01 nforce2 random lockups - still no solution ? Samuel Kvasnica
2003-10-21 18:13 ` Matt H.
2003-10-22  8:54   ` Vitez Gabor
2003-10-22 13:27     ` Samuel Kvasnica
     [not found]     ` <3F96847C.4000506@tuwien.ac.at>
     [not found]       ` <20031022133327.GA25283@swszl.szkp.uni-miskolc.hu>
2003-10-23 10:17         ` Samuel Kvasnica
2003-10-23 10:48           ` Mikael Pettersson
2003-10-23 11:04             ` Samuel Kvasnica
2003-10-23 12:51           ` James Courtier-Dutton
2003-11-05 23:11 ` Denis
2003-11-06 10:45   ` Samuel Kvasnica
2003-11-07 19:40     ` Eric Sandall
2003-11-08  7:34       ` Josh McKinney [this message]

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