From: James Strandboge <jamie@tpptraining.com>
To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Need help with lockups on tyan s2460 motherboard in SMP mode
Date: 23 Apr 2003 17:26:12 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1051133171.1589.32.camel@sirius.strandboge.cxm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1051018709.3235.55.camel@sirius.strandboge.cxm>
On Tue, 2003-04-22 at 09:38, James Strandboge wrote:
> I have a dual AMD 1600+ (MP processors) system with tyan s2460
> motherboard that freezes with no error messages in syslog.
First off, thank you to everyone who responded-- your input helped me
figure this out. I wanted to send this to the lists so others might
benefit.
As it turns out, the problem appears to have been solely heat related.
I ended up installing a vanilla 2.4.20 kernel with smp for 386 (ie no
pentium or athlon optimizations), without acpi, but with apm as a
module. I disabled power management in the BIOS, and boot with only
apm=power-off for kernel command line arguments. Notice I did NOT use
noapic. The kernel boots fine and has no APIC errors (though there is
that errata #22 message). I then installed lm_sensors 2.7.0 and
i2c-2.7.0 so I could read the temperature.
The temperature readings for the 3904 transistor are the ones to use,
since they are closest to those in the BIOS. I called tyan and spoke
with someone on the phone, and he said that the system will lock up
around 60C (not the advertised 80-90C, because the sensor is reading air
temperature). With the case all closed up I ran two kernel compiles,
and two 'top -d .01' instances all at once. Then I ran 'sensors' every
30 seconds, and sure enough, the computer got near 60C and crashed. I
took the sides off the case, and used an oscillating fan to blow air
into the computer and rebooted. 'sensors' now shows the temperature
between 39-43C and has been running the above stress test for several
hours (it has never run it for that long).
So now I will be buying some additional fans and making sure the air
flow is good in the case. I also whole heartedly recommend using
lm_sensors. It REALLY helped with debugging this issue.
Jamie
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James Strandboge
Targeted Performance Partners, LLC
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2003-04-22 13:38 Need help with lockups on tyan s2460 motherboard in SMP mode James Strandboge
2003-04-22 19:04 ` James Strandboge
2003-04-23 21:26 ` James Strandboge [this message]
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