[2.4.21-rc7] AP1700-S5 system freeze :-((

[Andreas Haumer <andreas@xss.co.at>]

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Hi!

Note: I'm reporting this with a different subject line now,
as I got zero replies to my first bugreport. This is still
the same Asus AP1700-S5 server as in my previous reports,
though:

Asus AP1700-S5 server, single Xeon 2.4GHz CPU (FSB533)
512MB registered DDR with ECC, Asus PR-DLS533 motherboard
with ServerWorks GCLE chipset

root@server:~ {535} $ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: ServerWorks CNB20-HE Host Bridge (rev 31)
00:00.1 Host bridge: ServerWorks CNB20-HE Host Bridge
00:00.2 Host bridge: ServerWorks CNB20-HE Host Bridge
00:03.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL (rev 27)
00:0f.0 ISA bridge: ServerWorks CSB5 South Bridge (rev 93)
00:0f.1 IDE interface: ServerWorks CSB5 IDE Controller (rev 93)
00:0f.3 Host bridge: ServerWorks GCLE Host Bridge
00:10.0 Host bridge: ServerWorks: Unknown device 0101 (rev 03)
00:10.2 Host bridge: ServerWorks: Unknown device 0101 (rev 03)
00:11.0 Host bridge: ServerWorks: Unknown device 0101 (rev 03)
00:11.2 Host bridge: ServerWorks: Unknown device 0101 (rev 03)
01:02.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 74)
02:04.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c1030 (rev 07)
02:04.1 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c1030 (rev 07)

Andreas Haumer wrote:
[...]
> I had this system running under heavy load for about 24 hours
> without problems. I then stopped the stress testing, and had
> several system freezes since then.
>
> With system freeze I mean:
>
> *) machine doesn't answer to ping, no reaction to console
>    keyboard, no message on the console screen, no message
>    in logfile, no oops, no noticeable system activity
>
I just had another freeze or lockup of this system,
after 1 day and 14 hours uptime. :-(

This time the machine was running with an 3Com 3c905c
100MBit NIC, with the onboard e1000 GBit controllers disabled.
Obviously, this didn't help, too...

When I noticed the freeze, I tried to ping the server,
and got a few replies back, but with a delay of more than
60 seconds! I didn't wait that long when I tried to ping
the server on the previous lockups, so maybe the "no answer
to ping" symptom I described is more a "big delay in
answering ping packets" symptom. Does that ring any bell?

Any idea anyone?

- - andreas

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