On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 10:59:08AM -0800, Dave Disser wrote:
> I've had my BP6 system for about a month and have on a few occasions
> run into a problem with "networking deafness" where the system is
> not able to receive network packets of any kind. First, when I had
> MPS set to 1.1 I saw this problem, though everything else seemed
> fine. After a couple weeks with MPS 1.4, I did see a crash here and
> there and tried the "noapic" option. In that case, networking
> worked fine initially, but after I did a lot of traffic, the system
> would become deaf to the network again.
>
> I was running with 2.2.12, but am now running 2.2.14, not using the
> udma66.
>
> Does anyone have knowledge of what the MPS setting and noapic
> options are doing? Seems that the problems have to do with IRQs,
> but I'm not a hardware guru. The stability of this board has been a
> real disappointment, and I'm about ready to pull one of the CPUs if
> it will rid me of these glitches.
Have you tried moving the NIC to another slot? If not, I would try
that first. 'noapic' forces interrupts all to one processor as if
non-SMP mode.
[hal@feenix hal]$ cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0 CPU1
0: 31258466 0 XT-PIC timer
1: 352549 0 XT-PIC keyboard
2: 0 0 XT-PIC cascade
5: 3 0 XT-PIC soundblaster
8: 15 0 XT-PIC rtc
10: 425713 0 XT-PIC eth0
12: 383431 0 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse
13: 1 0 XT-PIC fpu
14: 251474 0 XT-PIC ide0
15: 76 0 XT-PIC ide1
NMI: 0
ERR: 0
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