Re: __DEATH__ of SMP
Pavel Machek (pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz)
Mon, 21 Apr 1997 09:02:14 +0200 (MET DST)
> > Version 2.1.35 still has a problem with the system halting with no
> > evidence of any problem displayed in any log or on the console.
> >
> > The symptoms are:
> >
> > o Dead. No response to any external event like Numlock on the keyboard.
> > o Dead. No response to network pings.
> > o Dead. No evidence that it was a computer.
> >
> > After a hardware reset, the machine booted fine during which it performed
> > the mandatory `fsck` with no problems found to correct. This probably
> > means that the machine was idle, and had been idle for a long time, when
> > it hung.
> >
> > My non SMP machine, running the same kernel shows:
> > 10:44am up 2 days, 17:48, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
> >
> > The SMP machine will not stay up more than 8 hours.
>
> Additional information. This crash only happens if the machine is idle!
> I booted it this morning and it is dead again. It uses the aic7xxx.c
> driver and the NE2* ethernet card... Nothing else.
>
> On week-days, I am always running something on it and it stays up okay.
Hey! My non-smp machine that crashed (once) yesterday [cold as a stone -
even magic SysRq did nothing] has also NE2000 installed!
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