From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 16 Jun 2001 06:17:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 16 Jun 2001 06:17:23 -0400 Received: from [212.18.228.90] ([212.18.228.90]:60683 "HELO carrot.linuxgrrls.org") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Sat, 16 Jun 2001 06:17:05 -0400 Message-ID: <3B2B31C7.5020708@linuxgrrls.org> Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 11:15:35 +0100 From: Rachel Greenham Organization: LinuxGrrls.Org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.3-ac6 i686; en-US; rv:0.9.1) Gecko/20010607 Netscape6/6.1b1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: VIA KT133A crash *post* 2.4.3-ac6 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Thomas Molina wrote: >So is there no correlation from particular hardware to problems reported? >I'm running the A7V133 with a Western Digital WD300BB UDMA 5 drive on >kernel 2.4.5 with no trouble. > Well, I don't know. I'd guess there'd *have* to be some correlation, but we're not gathering enough information to see the pattern. ie: which BIOS version, what exact BIOS options are set, what processor/speed, what memory, what exact model of hard disk... We just may not have a big enough sample size. Even in my case the crashes aren't predictable in nature - 2.4.4 passed my bonnie test the first time, making me think the problem was introduced in 2.4.5, and only failed later in normal usage - next time I tested it it failed in the first minute or so. *Most* of the time failures occur during the bonnie test, but at all sorts of random times during the test. as long as you're sure you do have DMA enabled that is - SuSE at least leaves it disabled by default, under which conditions all kernels are stable for me -- Rachel