Re: nforce2 stability on 2.6.0-test5 and 2.6.0-test9

really bensoo_at_soo_dot_com
2003-10-30T19:01:47Z

Just as a point of info; i have had these lockup
probs too. Have a MSI K7N2 with nVidia TNT2
vidcard. Using kernel 2.6.0-test9.

When i run mldonkey (file sharing) the box will
lock up solid after a random amount of time in
X no matter what combo of ACPI / no ACPI, PIO / UDMA.
Sometimes the mouse pointer keeps moving for up
to ~30 sec before it too freezes. During this
interval there's no ATA activity and i can reboot
the box with SysReq key combos. If i wait until
the mouse freezes then the box is completely
locked and the SysReq keys don't work anymore.

HOWEVER, if i adjust the process priority of
mldonkey to -20, then the box doesn't lock up
anymore with ACPI and local APIC enabled and will
keep running forever and even burn DVD or CD's
while playing a video rip while compiling something.
There's the sporatic ~1 sec freeze when mldonkey
grabs the whole CPU but it always comes back.

regards,

On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 11:17:26AM -0800, Allen Martin wrote:
> Hi Ross, can you post the contents of /proc/interrupts, /proc/ide/amd74xx
> and /proc/ide/ide*/config, and also the output of "hdparm -I /dev/hd*" for
> each of your ATA / ATAPI devices?
>
> If the PIO and UDMA modes are setup correctly I can't think of anything
> inside the IDE driver that should be causing random lockups. I'd be much
> more suspicious of ACPI / APIC / interrupt setup.
>
> -Allen
>
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