Re: nforce2 random lockups - still no solution ?

Josh McKinney
2003-11-08T07:35:10Z

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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