Hi! I upgraded my PC at work to a Dual Celeron system on the day kernel 2.2.11
was released, and so I compiled it up with SMP support. Everything is fine
most of the time, but the system crashes once every day or two. The crashes
seem to be more of a grind to a halt, than a sudden freeze, although the
grinding IS rapid. First sign is the mouse freezes, then I usually toggle Num
Lock, and slowly the responsiveness of NumLock stops altogether, and I have to
hard-reset.
The Machine:
ABit BP6 MB
Dual Celeron 400 (NOT Overclocked)
Matrox G400 16MB Video
Adaptec AHA294X SCSI
Digital DV21041 Tulip (D-Link Card) Network
SoundBlaster AWE64
128MB RAM
The OS:
Kernel 2.2.11 (no additional patches) configured as per SMP instructions
(RTC, etc...)
Booted via Loadlin with mem=127M
Debian 2.1 (Slink), with parts of Potato (libc6.1, etc...)
XServer XFree86 SVGA 3.3.4 (installed Binary in place of 3.3.3.1 one)
Any ideas?? I *have* been load-testing this machine; I've been running two
SETI@Home's on it almost constantly, mainly to stress-test the machine, so
it's almost always running at 100(200)%. I dual-boot into Win98, and I haven't
had any problems under Win98 (other than usual Micro$oft problems), although
admittedly I spend 99% of my time under Linux...
I *really* hate this sort of problem; occurs rarely, and no easy explanation.
Being new the the Wide World of SMP, I'm not sure if this is an SMP
instability or not. And if it IS, is it system, or kernel related??
In something semi-related, what is peoples opinion of pset?
(http://isunix.it.ilstu.edu/~thockin/pset/) Is it worth it? (And any ideas
when a 2.2.11 patch for it will be out?)
Thanks...
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