[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> Hello there. I have gotten intermittent lockups on two different SMP
> Linux machines. No OOPS or anything... just a complete freeze. They
> are ATX and unplugging is the only way to rescue them. Sometimes it
> happens twice a day, sometimes they go a couple of weeks with no
> problems.
>
> How do I start tracking something like this? One is a dual celeron,
> the other a dual P3-150; neither is overclocked or anything. One is
> IDE, one is SCSI; both have Tulip NICs, that is the only similarity,
> really.
>
> This has happened throughout the 2.2.x tree; both are now on 2.2.12
> and still exhibit this behavior... any help in fixing it (or even
> coming up with a way to help figure out where it is going crazy) will
> be appreciated.
>
> Thanks!
> Mark
My 2c (or maybe a dollar?) advice:
1) Check BIOS config, disable all ACPI and power management features.
2) Rule out kernel problems by taking kernel 2.2.7 compiled with gcc (not
egcs!!!).
3) Run some crashtests (compiling kernel with parallel make in a loop for
example) to rule out the hardware problems.
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