Re: 2.2.9+ extreme instability
tom (saliege2@cict.fr)
Sun, 1 Aug 1999 08:51:28 +0200
Le dim, 01 aoû 1999, Andre M. Hedrick a écrit :
> On Sat, 31 Jul 1999, Peter Amstutz wrote:
>
> > Linux seems to be extremely unstable on my hardware. This seems to be a
> > recent problem, I have tried 2.2.9, 2.2.10 and 2.2.11pre2 in an attempt at
> > a stable system, but to no avail. My hardware specs:
> >
> > Tyan Tomcat IIID with SMP Pentium 200's
> > NE2000 clone ethernet card
> > ISA Sound Blaster 32
> > 2 GB and 4 GB IDE hard disk, floppy, IDE CD-ROM
> > Diamond Stealth 3D 2000, Diamond Monster 3D
>
> I have the identical (minus) Diamond Stealth 3D 2000, Diamond Monster 3D.
> You need to be able to backspeed the drives if they are UDMA drives or
> cripple the ioapic by using BIOS 4.02
>
> > Everything boots up fine, and usually works properly for an hour or two,
> > maybe more. Then it seems that almost always the system eventually hard
> > locks. No telnet, no ping, no sysreq keys, nothing. Dead to the world.
> > So I have to reboot, fsck, etc... It's incredibly frustrating.
> >
> > However, sometimes it doesn't die all at once. Several times I have run
> > into this: a few processes die on segfault (if I'm in X their windows
> > dissapear), then usually X dies and I'm dropped to the console.
> > Everything seems to be going alright, but within a few moments the system
> > dies completly. It seemed like when I try going to another virtual
> > console to log in caused system to ultimatly crash, but it could just be
> > coincidence. This exactly has happened on two seperate occasions, and the
> > system has just straight hardlocked (no wierd process death first) at
> > least half the time I've turned it on this week. Other times it has died
> > in screensaver (with the screesaver segfaulted...) Fortunatly I'm not
> > relying on this system for serious uptime, but it's beginning to really
> > get in the way of even normal usage, and Linux isn't supposed to crash,
> > right? :)
> >
> > I've checked my logs and they don't seem to log anything. There is some
> > info in the debug log about pin/irq mapping which I can send if that might
> > have anything to do with anything...
> >
> > Anyway, any suggestions would be _greatly_ appreciated. It feels like
> > I've used 2.1.x kernels more stable than these 2.2.x kernels... In fact
> > I'm probably going to try going back to 2.1.124 or so just to see if it's
> > any better, but it would make a little more sense for the stable kernels
> > to be stable, right? It's quite frustrating.
> >
> > Please reply by personal mail if possible, there's too much traffic on
> > linux-kernel for anyone but the dedicated kernel hacker to monitor
> > easily...
Your problem also seems like an overclocking problem. Had similar problem when
I had my old k6 200 running at 233.
Hope it will help.
Tom
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