I've owned a BP6 for just about 6months now and have had many problems.
following is a short overview of my hardware:
Dual C366's Overclocked to 523 5.5x97
3 17.2gig Maxtor HD's 2 ATA33 and 1 ATA66 (striped using LVM)
256megs cas2 PC125 RAM
STB 4meg viedo card (problem is if no monitor is present during boot does not
init)
1 1.44floppy, 1 16x CDROM, 1 Quantum 2000 15/30gig DLT
running through a back UPS 1400
I have tried many diffrent kernels and such over the last 6months som of the
tried configs follow:
1. 2.2.12 (redhat 6.1 std), failed poor stability and does not support HPT366
controler
2. 2.3.29 (with LVM, LM-sensors patch), runs well, but had many problems if no
APIC was not included in lilo and crshed often if load hung atover 1.0 for
more than a few min., during its life span I used NJ, QQ-B00 abd QQ_B01 with
it with no effect.
3. [Current] 2.3.99pre5 (LVM, lm-sensors patch), run very well withand without
APIC, maintained a load of 16.0+ for 2hr without crashing had 8 lost
interrupts during the run, using the APIC flag I had the load at 12.0+ for 2hr
and 3 lost interrupts. I was using QQ release for this test. while this is
still not great,and over 24hr I have 18 lost interrupts, see below, it is so
much better than ever before.
While I can not say that everything fixed it is something to think about and a
step in the right direction.
BIOS (some meaning full settings from BIOS):
MPS1.4 enabled, Memory CAS2, hold on error during boot off, USB and Video IRQ
off, Power Managemnet off, Paralel port disabled.
Current Interrupt table:
CPU0 CPU1
0: 2440294 2501409 IO-APIC-edge timer
1: 6 2 IO-APIC-edge keyboard
2: 0 0 XT-PIC cascade
4: 4 3 IO-APIC-edge serial
8: 0 1 IO-APIC-edge rtc
10: 5947 5962 IO-APIC-edge eth0
13: 1 0 XT-PIC fpu
14: 193757 194214 IO-APIC-edge ide0
15: 18738 18195 IO-APIC-edge ide1
17: 22 23 IO-APIC-level aic7xxx
18: 18394 18614 IO-APIC-level ide2
19: 37656 37854 IO-APIC-level eth1
NMI: 4941412 4941412
LOC: 4941136 4941134
ERR: 18
uptime:
8:56am up 23:50, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
CPUinfo: (both cpou are the same):
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 6
model name : Celeron (Mendocino)
stepping : 5
cpu MHz : 522.486467
cache size : 128 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
sep_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca
cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr
bogomips : 1042.02
version:
Linux version 2.3.99-pre5 (root@-----) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66
19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #16 SMP Wed Apr 12 21:17:54 EDT 2000
sensors:
w83782d-i2c-0-2d
Adapter: SMBus PIIX4 adapter at 5000
Algorithm: Non-I2C SMBus adapter
VCore 1: +2.11 V (min = +1.85 V, max = +2.25 V)
VCore 2: +1.50 V (min = +1.85 V, max = +2.25 V)
+3.3V: +3.34 V (min = +2.97 V, max = +3.63 V)
+5V: +5.11 V (min = +4.50 V, max = +5.48 V)
+12V: +11.78 V (min = +10.79 V, max = +13.11 V)
-12V: -12.24 V (min = -13.21 V, max = -10.90 V)
-5V: -5.01 V (min = -5.51 V, max = -4.51 V)
V5SB: +4.99 V (min = +4.50 V, max = +5.48 V)
VBat: +2.11 V (min = +2.70 V, max = +3.29 V)
fan1: 4411 RPM (min = 3000 RPM, div = 2)
fan2: 4354 RPM (min = 3000 RPM, div = 2)
fan3: 0 RPM (min = 3000 RPM, div = 2)
temp1: +34 C (limit = +60 C, hysteresis = +50 C, sensor = thermistor)
temp2: +35.0 C (limit = +60.0 C, hysteresis = +50.0 C, sensor =
thermistor)
temp3: +36.5 C (limit = +60.0 C, hysteresis = +50.0 C, sensor =
thermistor)
vid: +2.05 V
alarms: Chassis intrusion detection
beep_enable:
Sound alarm disabled
Hope this helps someone else. I'm still searching to remove all all lost
interrupts, but it is getting better.
Eric Gandt
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