I had similar problems with a newly acquired system, and managed to
isolate the onboard Intel EtherExpress Pro as being the culprit in my
case. Using a different NIC worked much, much better. My system also had
an Adpatec 78XX adpater (not onboard). I tried both 3Com 3C905 and
Asante PCI 10/100 NICs and both seemed to work flawlessly, without any
previous system lockups.
"Jason A. Diegmueller" wrote:
> It is a dual-processored machine (capable of 4, only utilizing
> two PPro 200's at this time, 512k cache each), so I have
> SMP compiled it. So at the current time, it basically is:
> linux-2.2.11-SMP with raid0145-990824 with four 2gb drives
> in a RAID-5. The SCSI bus is onboard Adaptec 78xx. The
> network card is an Intel Etherexpress PRO.
>
> The problem? It locks up. Solid. I've never in my life
> seen a Linux box just lock up, with no hints anywhere in
> logfiles. On the other hand, I've never gotten my hands on
> hardware this "big" (This sucker was $31k retail when they
> bought it). The machine is currently virutally unused (other
> then qpopper for POP mail); SAMBA is setup on it, but is
> currently completely unutilized at this time.
>
> It seems to lock hard every few days. Maybe 3 or 4? I see
> no coorelation of activity (ie, users doing something) and
> lockups, but am willing to dig a little deeper if someone has
> an idea.
>
> I was wondering two things:
> A. Are there any known incompatibilities with any of this
> hardware? I've seen some mentions of aix78xx, SMP, and
> raid causing problem. Is this what I'm bumping in to?
> B. Is there anything I can do to figure out WHAT is causing
> the hard lockups? Again, no hints in /var/log/messages or
> anywhere else. Possibly a serial cable to a dumb terminal
> constantly dumping system information?
>
> Any information or clues would be more then appreciated. Replies
> directly to the list are more then fine; I subscribe to both.
>
> Thanks.
>
> ::: Jason A. Diegmueller
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