From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alan Cox Subject: Re: WARNING!! Date: 23 Apr 2003 13:57:34 +0100 Sender: linux-smp-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1051102654.2062.96.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> References: <000b01c3099b$cca91600$d123a8c0@DAVIDIBM> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <000b01c3099b$cca91600$d123a8c0@DAVIDIBM> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: David Amaya Cc: linux-smp@vger.kernel.org On Mer, 2003-04-23 at 14:25, David Amaya wrote: > Hi, we just found that we are having this message during boot up.... > > WARNING: MP table in the EBDA can be UNSAFE, contact > linux-smp@vger.kernel.org if you experience SMP problems! > > Any idea? Its only an issue if you are using very old boot loaders (circa Red Hat 6 and equivalent date other distros) > We are looking for a reason why our xseries 330 with 2 PIII cpus are > locking-up (hangs)? we have 512 nodes and the lock-up seems not to be > repeated on any node, each day we find different nodes lock-up. > Do you think it could be because of this message? No. Likely candidates on a big cluster would be general "Haven't updated" to current vendor kernel things as a start, especially if you are using the tg3 driver for your ethernet.