From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261681AbTLDJAP (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Dec 2003 04:00:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262580AbTLDJAO (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Dec 2003 04:00:14 -0500 Received: from mail.netzentry.com ([157.22.10.66]:21512 "EHLO netzentry.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261681AbTLDJAJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Dec 2003 04:00:09 -0500 Message-ID: <3FCEF774.90904@netzentry.com> Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 00:59:32 -0800 From: "b@netzentry.com" Reply-To: b@netzentry.com Organization: b@netzentry.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031013 Thunderbird/0.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cbradney@zip.com.au CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: RE: NForce2 pseudoscience stability testing (2.6.0-test11) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This is the nature of this problem. I have seen reports it can hold out for sometimes a week. We need patches to try on 2.6 and 2.4 bad. Craig Bradney wrote >Ok folks.. > >first crash here.. complete lockup. No idea how related it was to > the ones others are experiencing. > >Uptime at that point was 5 days 8:07. > >I was just running an emerge sync on Gentoo. I had been away >from the PC >for a few hours (it had been recompiling mozilla in that time) >but I had >woken it up for at least 20 mins before the crash. > >So now the uptime run has died.. is there anything people want me > to test re kernel config? > >I'm running round 80 wire IDE cables btw. > >Craig > > >On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 06:37, b@netzentry.com wrote: >> Allen Martin wrote: >> >Also are people who are having problems using rounded or flat >> >cables? It's >> >possible the problem could be related to DMA CRC errors. >> >Switching to flat >> >cables can help with that. >> > >> >-Allen >> >> I'm using the one that came with the board, flat 80 wire. It >> works under extreme stress in Windows 2000. It doesnt work >> in Linux. >> >> >> (I generated millions of interrupts from IDE and network >> (dual gigabit) in Windows 2000 on this very hardware for >> 3 days - thats why I came to the LKML, I did an empirical >> test that indicated Linux, and did some reading and others >> have had similar problems.)