Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 06 Mar 2000 15:46:32 -0500 | From | Doug Ledford <> | Subject | Re: SMP 2.2.15pre13 unstable on Dell PE1300 - aic7xxx related? |
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"David L. Parsley (lkml account)" wrote: > > Hi, > > We bought a Dell Poweredge 1300 w/ dual PIII-500 & 256M ram, and have had > problems with 'sudden death' - it reboots immediately and reports an error > along the lines of 'Memory error or NMI'. I don't see anything in > /var/log/messages thats helpful. I tried the stock RH61 smp kernel, then > 2.3.38ish, and finally 2.2.15pre13. > > I booted 2.2.15pre13smp on Saturday, and then floodpinged the machine (we > think it's interrupt related), and it stayed steady untill today when a > student went to make a tarball of /home. (the aic7xxx equivalent of a > floodping?) Took the sucker right down. > > Instead of attaching 4 random files/logs/outputs, if anyone is interested > in this problem I'd be happy to test whatever you like and send whatever > outputs to whatever commands. The only interesting features of this > machine: using Intel Etherexpress pro100b (included from Dell) and Dell's > onboard aic7xxx w/ 2 harddrives, this machine is nfs server for /home.
The aic7xxx driver is pretty heavily tested in regards to it's SMP locking, I doubt that's your problem. I suspect you actually have bad hardware and that memory errors under certain types of load are taking your system down. Check out my web page, I have the script I use to test memory in a machine on it.
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Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com> http://people.redhat.com/dledford Please check my web site for aic7xxx updates/answers before e-mailing me about problems
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