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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Vladimir Dvorak <dvorakv@vdsoft.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: APIC error on CPUx
Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 14:03:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200605221403.16464.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4471A777.2020404@vdsoft.org>

On Monday 22 May 2006 13:58, Vladimir Dvorak wrote:
> Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> >Vladimir Dvorak <dvorakv@vdsoft.org> writes:
> >  
> >
> >>Linux requisities:
> >>Debian 3.1
> >>Linux mailserver 2.6.8-3-686-smp #1 SMP Thu Feb 9 07:05:39 UTC 2006 i686
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >That's an ancient kernel.
> >  
> >
> Yes, I agree.
> 
>  ... but the latest in Debian/Sarge. :-)
> 
> Do you, Andi,  thing that upgrade to latest vanilla one ( from
> kernel.org ) should solve this problem ?

Probably not.

> 
> >  
> >
> >>GNU/Linux
> >>
> >>Hardware:
> >>Intel SR1200
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >If it's an <=P3 class machine: most likely you have noise on the APIC bus.
> >
> >-Andi
> >
> >  
> >
> Yes, you are right :
> 
> cat /proc/cpuinfo
> ...
> model name      : Intel(R) Pentium(R) III CPU family      1133MHz
> ...
> 
> 
> "Noise on APIC bus" means - " a lot of interrupts from devices" ?

Usually a crappy/broken/misdesigned motherboard.

-Andi
 

  reply	other threads:[~2006-05-22 12:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-22  7:38 APIC error on CPUx Vladimir Dvorak
2006-05-22 11:15 ` Andi Kleen
2006-05-22 11:58   ` Vladimir Dvorak
2006-05-22 12:03     ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2006-05-22 12:19       ` Vladimir Dvorak
2006-05-22 12:31         ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-05-22 12:54         ` Andi Kleen
2006-05-22 13:13           ` Xavier Bestel
2006-05-22 19:44         ` Junio C Hamano
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-05-24  5:15 Brown, Len
2006-05-24  8:10 ` Mikael Pettersson
2006-05-23 20:16 Brown, Len
2006-05-23 20:37 ` Vladimir Dvorak
2006-05-25 11:51   ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-05-22 14:47 Brown, Len
2006-05-22 14:50 ` Andi Kleen
2006-05-23  6:44 ` Vladimir Dvorak
2002-01-13 12:51 Teodor Iacob

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