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From: Christian <evil@g-house.de>
To: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: lockups with 2.4.2x
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 15:26:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F6DA70A.6030100@g-house.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030921053816.GD589@alpha.home.local>

Willy Tarreau wrote:
> Hmmm, there is a lot of hardware in this box. Have you tried disabling IDE ?
> ServeRaid ? SymBIOS ?

hm, yes, i could disable the ServeRaid module. gotta find out how to 
disable the builtin IDE / Symbios other than recompile the kernel...

can i do this by giving "ide0=noprobe ide1=noprobe ..." on the 
boot-prompt? my rootdisk used to be on hda, will see if i can do something.

> Also, the DMESG shows that you have an AMD bug on your CPUs, and tells you
> that if you have problems, you should restart with 'noapic'. Did you try it ?

Oh, no, I did not. sorry. i'll try it.

> You could also try to boot in 'nosmp' mode, and even with network unplugged.

hm, will try this too.

> I believe it will be relatively quick to find the problem if the system
> usually hangs in no more than 3 minutes.

the worst thing on this machine is the pre-booting process, where all 
the controllers are "Initializing..."  and "Checking...", and even the 
ServRaid controller wants to have 3 minutes sometimes to settle :-)

> You may also have a defect in your RAM.

even it is "ECC" RAM, i'll give it a try.

Thank your for the quick reply, i'll try these things out, will take 
some time, so maybe i'm back in the evening.

Christian.
(if I only could use my .sig this time :-))
-- 
BOFH excuse #301:

appears to be a Slow/Narrow SCSI-0 Interface problem



  reply	other threads:[~2003-09-21 13:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-21  2:56 lockups with 2.4.2x evil
2003-09-21  5:37 ` Christian
2003-09-21  5:38 ` Willy Tarreau
2003-09-21 13:26   ` Christian [this message]
2003-09-21 21:49     ` Christian
2003-09-23  0:23 ` Christian Kujau

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