Hi folks, I sent an email to this list a few days ago about my dual PII/266 Tyan system locking up under high load (like two seti clients) with the 2.2 kernel (most recently 2.2.14). The symptoms are a complete freeze at the console (in X or not) and the only way to get in is via telnet from another machine. A steady flow of incoming network traffic (like PING) will temporarily alleviate the 'lock'. I have just discovered something with a little experimentation. If I use the BIOS to set the L1 cache of the CPU's to 'disable' or 'write through' as opposed to 'write back', then I eliminate the SMP locking problem but suffer a terrific hit in performance in X. I was a bit surprised at this finding and wonder if anyone has any ideas. Is there any hope of enabling SMP without suffering such a performance hit or should I just drop it and be happy with a single, stable PII. thanks for your help, Dave -- Linux, the choice of a GNU generation - Linux SMP list: FIRST see FAQ at http://www.irisa.fr/prive/dmentre/smp-howto/ To Unsubscribe: send "unsubscribe linux-smp" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
