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Date:      Mon, 24 Aug 1998 12:02:43 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>
To:        =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= <sos@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Lars =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=F6ller?= <Lars.Koeller@post.uni-bielefeld.de>, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG, gibbs@FreeBSD.ORG, ken@plutotech.com
Subject:   Re: Freeze with SMP and CAM-19980712!
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.00.9808241201350.361-100000@picnic.mat.net>
In-Reply-To: <199808240813.KAA06307@sos.freebsd.dk>

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On Mon, 24 Aug 1998, Søren Schmidt wrote:

> In reply to Lars =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=F6ller?= who wrote:
> > 
> > Hello!
> > 
> > I've installed the 3.0-CAM-19989712 on my Tyan Titan Pro (2x200 MHz 
> > PPro, 64 MB RAM). The machine works fine, but instable!
> > 
> > I stressed the machine a whole day by a loop of 
> > 
> >   make -j 4 clean buildworld
> > 
> > without any problems. A parallel 'dump 0' onto DAT, no problem.
> > But then a simple 'emacs /etc/crontab' or a simple desktop change, 
> > or .... any other simple action, without any load on the machine 
> > leads to a instantaneously freeze of the system (mouse locked, no 
> > panic, no reboot, no kdb, ..., only a hard reset helps). One time 
> > it dies during a simple kernel compile cycle. It's not deterministic 
> > reproducible!
> 
> Hmm, I run several of those boards with SMP, but without CAM, and
> they work just fine.
> 
> So unless you have unstable HW (which seems unlikely if you can run
> non-SMP), we can add CAM to Softupdates for pieces that doesn't work
> under SMP...

Did I miss something (probably). I run the 166 version of the above, no
CAM, but I do have softupdates, and it's as solid as a rock.

> Justin ?? ever tested it under SMP ??
> 
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> Søren Schmidt               (sos@FreeBSD.org)               FreeBSD Core Team
>                 Even more code to hack -- will it ever end?
> ..
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