Re: smp freeze on 2.4.9

[Philippe Amelant <philippe.amelant@free.fr>]

On jeu, 2001-08-30 at 15:06, Alan Cox wrote:
> > interresting, i notice that i have some error apic in kernel message
> > with 2.4.3
> > i will search that on lkml archive
> 
> Lots of apic errors imply problems on the link between the processors and
> io controller. A few is basically ok (there is a checksum) but a huge number
> and one day it'll checksum a bad frame ok and you are history
> 

So I think it's ok for my 2.4.3, I just have about 5 ~ 10 apic error by
hour

> There is also a problem with Linus tree where apic errors causing event
> replays where the erroring component was not the CPUs can cause crashes.
> That is fixed in -ac.

I have tried 2.4.9-ac4 and i still have a freeze in few minutes, but
when i configured it with noapic all seem ok, I use the box 3 hours
without freeze

Thank
> 
> Alan
>