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DateSat, 8 Nov 2003 02:34:09 -0500
SubjectRe: nforce2 random lockups - still no solution ?
FromJosh McKinney <>
On approximately Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 11:40:06AM -0800, Eric Sandall wrote:
> Quoting Samuel Kvasnica <samuel.kvasnica@tuwien.ac.at>:
> > It was local APIC ! After recompiling 2.4.22 without local apic 
> > everything works smoothly since several  weeks. I wonder when there'll 
> > be a kernel
> > patch that really solves these nforce2/amd issues.
> > Sam
> 
> Disabling local APIC on 2.6.0-test9-mm2 also fixes this (I haven't tried on
> earlier kernels).
> 
> -sandalle
> 

I am seeing the same thing here.  Disk activity and APIC don't seem to
do well.  What kind of performance hit if any are we taking by disabling
APIC?

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