Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 27 Feb 2004 13:59:00 +0000 | | From | Dan Creswell <> | | Subject | Re: Hard locks under high interrupt load? |
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This box is running Fedora Core 1 and so, yes, it's running a userspace balance daemon (Redhat's).
I'll try out the noirqbalance option and get back to the list on that one.
Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
>On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, Dan Creswell wrote: > > > >>I'm having zero success in getting 2.6.3 stable under interrupt load. I >>can kill my machine in a variety of fashions all of which appear, to my >>naive eye, related to interrupt load: >> >>(1) LAN traffic via E1000 card (X is not running) >>(2) Running X for more than a few minutes - starting up a couple of >>applications whilst performing some disk-based activity (such as a >>compile) usually seems to do the trick. >> >>(2) is worth a little more examination. I have an NVIDIA card (I can >>hear you all groan) *but* I get the same results with the XFree driver >>*or* the proprietary NVIDIA driver. >> >>Disabling IO-APIC usage seems to resolve the problem. >> >> > >Does the 'noirqbalance' kernel parameter also serve as a workaround? Are >you using any userspace irq balancers? > > > >>Machine is a dual Xeon, Tyan S2665 (E7505 chipset) with an MPT-Fusion >>SCSI controller. >> >>2.4.26-pre1 and various other 2.4 kernels give me no problems at all. I >>really want to switch my machines over to 2.6 but I can't whilst this >>problem persists. >> >> > > >
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