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DateTue, 11 Aug 1998 02:14:09 +0200
FromTygrys <>
SubjectRe: SMP
Gary White wrote:
>
> Guys,
>
> I have been running all the 2.1 kernels up to 2.1.109 which
> I am running now on a Tyan Tomcat IV with 200 Pentium
> CPUs with no problems with 128M. Uptimes have been
> running into the months with load average up to 2.5 at times.
> Just recently I decided to upgrade the memory from 128M
> to 192M. Now, since then I have been having all kinds of
> problems. Segmentation faults, system lockups, and programs
> crashes seem to happen often. I have changed the bios settings
> to all kinds of timing changes, such as reducing memory
> speed to 70ns instead of 60ns or auto, changed the cache
> size to 512M instaed of 64M, and nothing seems to help.
> Is anyone out there running a Tyan board with more that
> 128M and how did you set it up?.

This problem is quite easy to solve; restore the original bios settings
and take the new memory out of its slots. Should work perfectly :) -
these symptoms are typical for a faulty memory.

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