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SubjectRe: [BUG] Strange problems in 2.3.x with SMP Sparc
On Thu, Mar 23 2000, Augusto Cesar Radtke wrote:
> > My 4-way sparc, which works great with 2.2.14, doesn't like 2.3.x at
> > all. There seems random corruption in memory (ie shell logins just
> > die within seconds, and other really wierd stuff happens). I have
> > tried 2.3.51, and 2.3.99-pre3, and they seem about the same level of
> > brokenness.
> >
> > 2.3.51 worked great on it as a UP kernel before I got my 4 HyperSparc
> > processors 8^) , so I'm very keen to get the 2.3 series working on it
> > as SMP.
> >
> > Let me know how I can debug this further and I'll try to help.
>
> Sean,
>
> try to use SGI's kdb to analise the internal data structures, you can
> download it at http://oss.sgi.com.

kdb is x86 only.

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