Messages in this thread | | | From | (Steven Ireland) | Subject | Re: enable_ioapic_irq broken in arch/i386/kernel/irq.c | Date | Tue, 28 Apr 1998 17:02:46 GMT |
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On Tue, 28 Apr 1998 11:16:19 -0500 (CDT), you wrote:
> > >I have been running this on my 4 processor pentium pro machine >(ALR quad-6) since early this morning... did a kernel build with >-j install (after a make clean) which took 3.00 minutes exactly >(plus a fraction of a second.. :) ) Unzipped 3 gigs worth of >files (gzipped they shrink to 350mb or so) and so forth. So far, >no hangs. Note that I use the BT958 SCSI adapter, and an EtherExpress >Pro 100 ethernet interface. I will beat on the ethernet after lunch >to see if it will stay solid... I had run 2.1.97 for 6 days non-stop >as of this morning when I rebooted, with no crashes or hangs of any >kind, running a *heavy* multi-threaded application plus the normal >user stuff I do all the time... > >so far, so good... > >If you have other things to test, let me know. This machine seems >to be a "bad actor" due to 4 processors, which seem to be able to >excite bugs that 2 processor machines don't notice... I'm par- >ticularly interested in the eepro100.c code to see how it responds, >as it had some serious problems in 2.1.96'ish kernels with large >file transfers and NFS going on at the same time... >
From other reports here it looks like the NE2000 driver is 'troubled'. I have a a Tulip based PCI adapter in a machine at work which I will pull, swap it with the NE2000, leave everything else the same and run my tests.
I'll be in touch.
Steve
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