[Fwd: Re: Hard lock on 2.6-test9]

[Dan Creswell <dan@dcrdev.demon.co.uk>]

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Subject: 	Re: Hard lock on 2.6-test9
Date: 	Sun, 16 Nov 2003 13:33:32 +0000
From: 	Dan Creswell <dan@dcrdev.demon.co.uk>
To: 	Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
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Davide Libenzi wrote:

>On Sat, 15 Nov 2003, Dan Creswell wrote:
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>>Chipset is E7505 with dual Xeons.
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>>Under X, I can provoke a lock just by waggling the mouse.  I've had the 
>>machine connected up to a serial console with nmi_watchdog=1 and, when 
>>the machine dies, nothing is printed on the console (I guess that makes 
>>it *very* bad :( ).
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>Is NMI really enabled?
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>$ cat /proc/interrupts
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>- Davide
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Sorry Davide,

I forgot to mention that a UP 2.6-test9 works fine whilst an SMP version 
doesn't (unless I use "noapic")

2.4 in dual or UP seems rock-solid (bar one issue which may have been 
network card related).

Dan.