Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 19 Aug 2003 09:12:43 +0200 | From | Stephan von Krawczynski <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.22-pre lockups (now decoded oops for pre10) |
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On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 18:12:08 -0700 Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com> wrote:
> > > It is unlikely for bad ram to survive memtest for several hours. > > > > memtest is single threaded, UP kernel works fine too. > > Are you saying that one CPU can't saturate the memory bus? Or maybe we're > hitting something on the CPU bus, or just that SMP will change the timings > and stress things differently? Or that if memtest doesn't test from the > second CPU then it could be a faulty cpu/L2?
Well, if memtest does not use a second available CPU then probably we should ask the author about this...
> Grr, has anything been done to verify the hardware is running withing specs > and isn't too hot?
In fact we are talking about datacenter environment with air conditioning and the like. Besides the favourite test box I have others (already mentioned in this thread) - SMP with completely different hw - where I can make 2.4.21 and above crash, too.
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