Greetings
Thanks for the BIOS memory saving tip.
Zdenek Kabelac wrote:
> (Dissable all of ACPI & APM stuff in Bios - it eats one 1MB)
>
> Also please - when you are claiming that your machine is
> rock solid - could you add short description what is inside
> the computer and also what is your basis system setup - are you
> connected to high speed network ???
>
> On my home computer I haven't seen unexpected locks for weeks
> however this machine is highly experimental so I'm usually
> not running the kernel for more than a day.
>
> On my University computer however I'm seeing unxpected locks
> usualy when working with NFS (thus I suspect the bug is somewhere
> in the NFS code rather)
>
> Also without the noapic option I was ocassionly seeing
> some unxpected interrupts, hda: lost interrupts or
> network card interrupts problems (but with noapic they dissapeared).
>
I am permanently connected to a T2 (10 Mb/s) ethernet line through my 3COM
3c900B card, and have 5 other remote disks NFS mounted, and several
other computers mount my disk.
I have a BusLogic UW SCSI card to run the Digital Linear Tape drive, and a
RIva TNT2 based graphics card. My disk is a 13.5 GB 7200 RPM IBM ATA-66
(run on the 33 bus). My case is from powerUp Inc in Houston, and has two
big fans on the chips, and two fans in the case, one at the top back, one at
bottom front.
This keeps everything very cool, typically 38C when my 366/66 Celeron PPGA's
are
overclocked to 523/95, only a few degrees higher than when run normally.
THere were many problems before, random kernel panics, ethernet crashes, and
it was very very frustrating. I was ready to return the CPUs before the tech
at PowerUp suggested the new BIOS. with the new BIOS, NJ, now it runs very
stable, even while stressed to an extreme level. lucky me.
-BuN
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