Apologies for the delay in replying - our fileserver died a grisly death on Friday afternoon.
> Could you do the following for me, please: > > 0) In your BIOS options look for an option to remap/reclaim > the dram hole, and if it is offering a choice of "software" > vs "hardware" remapping select hardware. If that was > not already selected reboot with that setting and see > if the hang occurs. Set the following in /etc/system > to increase the scrub rate we apply so (if we're guilty) > you won't have to wait 90 minutes each time: > > set cpu\.AuthenticAMD\.15:ao_scrub_rate_dram=1 > No option exists in the BIOS Setup Utility to remap the dram hole, as far as I could see. Adding the above line to /etc/system did indeed reduce the time to crash - so much so that it didn't get as far as the login prompt :( Hence, as I didn't have the nous or time to roll the Smart Array drivers into a Live CD or the failsafe boot environment, I reinstalled. > 1) Regardless of the results of 0, in mdb dump out the memory > controller nvlist info and then the full memory controller structure: > > mdb -k <<EOM > *mc_list::list mc_t mc_next | ::print mc_t mc_nvl | ::nvlist > *mc_list::list mc_t mc_next | ::print mc_t > EOM > The output is pretty long: instead of attaching it I've put it here: http://chrislf.freeshell.org/mdb.out > 2) If 0 did not take care of it, rename the two AMD cpu modules and reboot: > > # mv /platform/i86pc/kernel/cpu/cpu.AuthenticAMD.15 \ > /platform/i86pc/kernel/cpu/cpu.AuthenticAMD.15- > > # mv /platform/i86pc/kernel/cpu/amd64/cpu.AuthenticAMD.15 \ > /platform/i86pc/kernel/cpu/amd64/cpu.AuthenticAMD.15- > > # init 6 This worked. > > That's a bit heavy-handed since it eliminates all the config > operations we perform and not just the scrubber stuff. We will > fallback to the dumb generic support. > > 3) If 2) appears to let you survive longer than 90 minutes you can > add the following to /etc/system as a workaround: > > set cpu\.AuthenticAMD\.15:ao_scrub_policy=1 > set cpu\.AuthenticAMD\.15:ao_scrub_rate_dram=0 > > which will stop us enabling the dram scrubber. If you > set the dram scrub rate in 0) above to 1 be sure to replace > that line with the 0 setting above. This also worked fine! Let me know if you would like further details of my hardware setup. Cheers, Chris _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
