Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 20 Apr 1997 20:09:16 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: __DEATH__ of SMP |
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On Sun, 20 Apr 1997, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> Version 2.1.35 still has a problem with the system halting with no > evidence of any problem displayed in any log or on the console. > > The symptoms are: > > o Dead. No response to any external event like Numlock on the keyboard. > o Dead. No response to network pings. > o Dead. No evidence that it was a computer. > > After a hardware reset, the machine booted fine during which it performed > the mandatory `fsck` with no problems found to correct. This probably > means that the machine was idle, and had been idle for a long time, when > it hung. > > My non SMP machine, running the same kernel shows: > 10:44am up 2 days, 17:48, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 > > The SMP machine will not stay up more than 8 hours. >
Additional information. This crash only happens if the machine is idle! I booted it this morning and it is dead again. It uses the aic7xxx.c driver and the NE2* ethernet card... Nothing else.
On week-days, I am always running something on it and it stays up okay.
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