Hi Emanuel. I will keep track on this problem, but I have another problem ...
At the moment, my SS20 is my main internet machine. If I kill it, my email is gone. I am interested in a solution, too, but first I need another machine doing my email and internet. I hope to receive missing parts for my new Ultra1 (keybord, graphics) this weekend. If so, I will start to move my internet account to that machine. It will take some days, but if that works, I will start testing on my SS20. So: Please be patiant :-) Hartwig On Friday 29 November 2002 18:14, you wrote: > Hi again > > I've done some more experiments: > I have two 64meg and two 32meg modules in my ss10. > > If I put in only one module, 2.4.20rc2 works fine. > > If I put in the two 64meg modules, 2.4.20rc2 works nearly well. First the > modules have to be in the right slots (see sun homepage). Second there are > some moments the system sleeps for about 10 seconds. I could not yet > determine what causes this stops besides the fact, that it is a > memory-related problem (what a surprise ;) ) > > If I put in all four modules, I get where I was before - nothing works. > > Besides this I noticed some strange differences between 2.4.20rc2 and > 2.2.21 (both smp): > - With two 64meg modules, 2.2.21 counts about 127meg, 2.4.20rc2 counts > about 124meg. I did not know that the kernel version does have an affect > on the installed memory ;) > - With 2.2.21 the dual hyperSparc at 125Mhz produces about 125bogomips per > cpu, with 2.4.20rc2 it produces about 109bogomips. This decrease in > doing > nothing has been observed before on suse-sparc. > If I calculate 2^100000 with bc, there is no time difference for the two > kernels. This probably does not mean anything, I just wanted to see if I > can prove this in an easy way. > > Can someone reproduce similar problems (Hartwig?)? > Is there a sparc-kernel-mailing-list or is lkml the place for such > problems? > Did I something that I should not on sparc? I'm sparc-newbie... > > Thanks > Emanuel >