Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 7 Mar 2000 08:42:32 -0500 (EST) | From | "David L. Parsley (lkml account)" <> | Subject | Re: SMP 2.2.15pre13 unstable on Dell PE1300 - aic7xxx related? |
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Hi Ingo,
On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, David L. Parsley (lkml account) wrote: > > > 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'. [...] > > hm, Linux has no such message. Do you get this 'Memory error or NMI' when > the BIOS does the RAM check? This could be a fault in a RAM chip being > triggered by high DMA traffic.
Yes, this message comes from the BIOS after the machine has rebooted. I'm going to find and run memtest86; but one thing I forgot to mention is that we fell back to a UP kernel and it ran like a champ for weeks. No SMP kernel has gone more than about 2-3 days, sometimes much less (a few hours). I'll also dig up Doug's mem testing script and try that.
> Sporadic reboots in the 2.2.latest kernel > line are almost certainly a sign of hardware error. (it could also be > overheating of any hw component: RAM, motherboard, CPU or disk)
I guess I should check the fans on both CPU's - a bad fan on CPU #2 would certainly cause problems ;-)
thanks, David
- -- David L. Parsley Network Specialist City of Salem Schools
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