From: Josh McKinney <forming@charter.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: NForce2 pseudoscience stability testing (2.6.0-test11)
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 12:55:48 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031204175548.GB10471@forming> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <frodoid.frodo.87vfow33zm.fsf@usenet.frodoid.org>
On approximately Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 06:08:29PM +0100, Julien Oster wrote:
> Josh McKinney <forming@charter.net> writes:
>
> Hello Josh,
>
> > Just to add more inconsistency into the mix, I am running with preempt
> > enabled, generic ide disabled, and can't make it crash. Ran netperf for
> > an hour over a crossover cable on 100mbit, a couple make -j 30 kernel
> > compiles, dbench, and playing some mp3's all at the same time and
> > nothing happens despite load average reaching over 100. Maybe I am just
> > lucky.
>
> Or maybe not.
>
> In the very beginning, 1 or 2 months ago right after I bought the
> board, it did crash but it actually didn't crash very often. In fact,
> most of the time (not every time, but most!) it crashed while the
> system being rather idle. To add even more perplexity to it: I could
> work on the system for hours and then leave the computer half an hour
> alone for talking a walk or jogging or whatever and, after coming
> back, run across a complete lockup. Normally, the clock applet on my
> desktop told me that the box crashed several minutes after I went out,
> since the clock of course froze with the mainboard as well.
>
> A lot changed by now, hardware and software, and now I'm hardly able
> to run the system with ACPI/APIC enabled at all. If the boot procedure
> goes fine, it locks up shortly after. If fsck decides to check the
> disks, the mainboard is doomed to lock up away immediately.
>
> That really is a nasty problem.
>
This issue seems to be funny like that. When I first recieved this
mobo I too had crashes like you say you are having now. Doing
practically anything would make it crash, passing noapic and nolapic
on boot solved the problems. Now, as I said, stable with all ACPI
APIC LAPIC enabled. I haven't changed any hardware or anything
either, except for now I am using the nvidia ethernet with the
forcedeth driver, but I somehow don't think that has anything to do
with it, maybe it is worth looking into.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-04 18:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-04 12:17 NForce2 pseudoscience stability testing (2.6.0-test11) b
2003-12-04 15:19 ` Craig Bradney
2003-12-04 16:32 ` Josh McKinney
2003-12-04 17:08 ` Julien Oster
2003-12-04 17:55 ` Josh McKinney [this message]
2003-12-04 20:02 ` NForce2 pseudoscience stability testing (2.6.0-test11) - IRQ flood related ? cheuche+lkml
2003-12-04 20:48 ` Bob
2003-12-04 23:05 ` Jesse Allen
2003-12-04 23:14 ` Prakash K. Cheemplavam
2003-12-04 23:21 ` Craig Bradney
2003-12-04 23:36 ` Prakash K. Cheemplavam
2003-12-05 5:47 ` Bob
2003-12-05 7:01 ` Craig Bradney
2003-12-05 12:33 ` Prakash K. Cheemplavam
2003-12-05 8:16 ` cheuche+lkml
2003-12-05 13:28 ` NForce2 pseudoscience stability testing (2.6.0-test11) Pat Erley
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2003-12-04 13:07 Dan Creswell
2003-12-04 9:09 b
2003-12-04 8:59 b
2003-12-04 5:37 b
2003-12-04 7:00 ` Craig Bradney
2003-12-04 5:11 Allen Martin
2003-12-04 20:04 ` Jesse Allen
2003-12-04 20:41 ` Craig Bradney
2003-12-04 20:55 ` Craig Bradney
2003-12-04 22:03 ` Bob
2003-12-04 2:57 b
2003-12-04 1:41 b
2003-12-04 2:45 ` Jesse Allen
2003-12-04 7:42 ` Prakash K. Cheemplavam
2003-12-04 4:45 ` Josh McKinney
2003-12-04 11:47 ` ross.alexander
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[not found] ` <fa.f27m7i8.1vk0j84@ifi.uio.no>
2003-12-04 1:08 ` walt
2003-12-03 1:32 Allen Martin
2003-12-03 1:23 b
2003-12-03 1:30 ` Ian Kumlien
2003-12-03 0:58 Allen Martin
2003-12-03 1:09 ` Ian Kumlien
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2003-12-03 0:28 ` Craig Bradney
2003-12-03 0:48 ` Prakash K. Cheemplavam
2003-12-03 8:15 ` Craig Bradney
2003-12-03 17:09 ` bill davidsen
[not found] ` <200312031709.MAA18860@gatekeeper.tmr.com>
2003-12-03 17:37 ` Prakash K. Cheemplavam
2003-12-03 0:47 ` Ian Kumlien
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[not found] ` <WTYM.3ua.7@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <WVoa.73O.17@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-11-30 13:06 ` Lenar Lõhmus
2003-11-29 10:25 bug in -test11 make xconfig Christopher Sawtell
2003-11-29 11:18 ` NForce2 pseudoscience stability testing (2.6.0-test11) Craig Bradney
2003-11-29 16:34 ` Julien Oster
2003-11-29 16:47 ` Craig Bradney
2003-11-29 16:54 ` Craig Bradney
2003-12-07 11:32 ` Jussi Laako
2003-12-07 15:49 ` Prakash K. Cheemplavam
2003-12-01 18:30 ` Pavel Machek
2003-12-01 20:20 ` Craig Bradney
[not found] <001a01c3b515$b6030de0$0f00a8c0@client.attbi.com>
2003-11-28 15:13 ` ross.alexander
2003-11-28 16:46 ` Alistair John Strachan
2003-11-28 18:13 ` Julien Oster
2003-11-28 18:24 ` Prakash K. Cheemplavam
2003-11-29 2:55 ` Josh McKinney
2003-11-29 16:33 ` Julien Oster
2003-11-29 17:15 ` Josh McKinney
2003-12-02 10:13 ` ross.alexander
2003-12-02 21:12 ` Josh McKinney
2003-12-03 16:23 ` Julien Oster
2003-11-28 18:00 ` Julien Oster
2003-11-28 18:18 ` Prakash K. Cheemplavam
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