Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 25 Aug 1998 11:55:21 -0400 | From | "S.C. Chang" <> | Subject | The most stable kernel version for SMP machines? |
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I have been using Linux kernel 2.0.12 for a long time on a four 200MHz Pentium Pro system with an Adaptec 2940, a DPT RAID controller, and a 3Com 3c905 network card. The only serious problem has been that, from time to time, especially when network access is heavy, the message
"eth0: Transmitter access conflict"
would pop up numerous times and all network accesses were then disabled. The only way out was to reboot. But at least this was manageable. I put in a cron job just to detect the situation and to reboot if needed.
In order to get away from this problem, I tried kernel 2.0.35 recently. However, it ran fine for several hours and then there were these horrible
"IRQ deadlock detected by CPU [0123]"
messages showed up on console. And then the only way out was to press the reset button.
So, does anybody have good experience with kernel later than 2.0.12 on a SMP machine, without any of the two problems mentioned above?
S.C. Chang
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