Hello all - I've been trying to do some performance tests on a dual-core opteron machine using the tyan tomcat H1000E board [1]_ - when I boot 1.10.1 UP with acpi disabled, things run fine, but running UP with ACPI yields strange dld problems and appears to cause filesystem corruption after less than an hour or so of operation (afterwords, booting from cd += fsck yields truncated directory inodes, etc, so it appears that the system is corrupting the disk).
Booting w/ACPI results in a dmesg with SATA, whereas without ACPI results in the system booting in regular ATA mode. Currently, the machine has been running UP for about 24H without ACPI and managed to crunch it's way through a subset of a pkgsrc bulk build, so I'm thinking there's something in either the ACPI or the SATA driver for the onboard H1000 controller thats causing the problem - this has been the second occurrence of similar as well. I've got another identical machine I can use for testing - what's the best way to proceed? Thinking to boot a -HEAD cdrom and do some filesystem benchmarking inside a chroot.. I'll probably do that and respond to thread but my cynical nature makes me think it might still be an issue despite all the great ACPI work going on, so hoping to get a 'leg up' so to speak on what people think the right method might be for troubleshooting this.. ACPI is a new concept for me so I'm trying to get up to speed on things.. Also, the bios supports runtime setting of ACPI v1, 2, 3 - what is best (aside from experimenting, of course) in any case - thanks in advance.. looking forward to getting back in to the swing of things in DF land! Thanks, - Chris [1] http://www.tyan.com/archive/products/html/tomcath1000e.html
