From owner-freebsd-smp Mon Aug 20 7: 6: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from mailc.telia.com (mailc.telia.com [194.22.190.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58CE337B410 for ; Mon, 20 Aug 2001 07:05:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from watchman@ludd.luth.se) Received: from d1o907.telia.com (d1o907.telia.com [195.252.38.241]) by mailc.telia.com (8.11.2/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f7KE5s729846 for ; Mon, 20 Aug 2001 16:05:54 +0200 (CEST) Received: from ludd.luth.se (h125n2fls21o907.telia.com [213.66.203.125]) by d1o907.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA01139 for ; Mon, 20 Aug 2001 16:05:53 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <3B811940.10807@ludd.luth.se> Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 16:05:52 +0200 From: Joachim =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Str=F6mbergson?= Organization: Acne User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010819 X-Accept-Language: en-US MIME-Version: 1.0 To: smp@freebsd.org Subject: Bye bye dear SMP system Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Aloha! Ok, I belive I'm experiencing a HW failure but would just like to check with you guys. I have been a very happy owner of a FreeBSD SMP system. The machine runs on dual Celeron 533 CPUs on the ABIT BP6 MB. It has been a very stable and nice system even though it might not have the straight line, single process speed. Lately however I have experienced hard lockups that forces me to hit reset. I've survived so far (thanks to Soft updates I pressume). One of the big SW changes have been the move to XFree86 4.1.0. Also, I have probably let kernel and system come out of sync [1]. Checking this I therefore dropped out of X and made a buildworld, single user installworld and mergemaster. Suddenly I got a lock in while merging. Since /etc hadn't been updates no major harm was done. I noticed however that Win98 worked smoothly and semed to be more stable that the SMP-system. (No, I'm not trolling [;-)] . This sounds seriously wrong. This got me thinking in terms of SMP vs UP. I therefore compiled a new kernel with the only difference compared to the SMP kernel was that SMP was turned off. I have now been running on this kernel for 8 hours in X with mozilla (another suspect since I recently started using it). So far everything seems fine. So, a few questions: (1) Is late 4.3-STABLE and 4.4-RC unstable in SMP mode? I suspect not, (2) How to go about catching the lock? Console doesn't show anything, the machines simply freezes over, (3) Any BP6-user with similar experience that have any ideas? I'm not running overclocked or anything like that. I've included the latest dmesg. (It's the UP dmesg). Any help and pointers would be very helpful. [1] I guess I'm not the only one tracks stable on a weekly basis, and then once in a while realises that a new driver or thingy needs to be changed in the kernel and therefore simply rebuilds and installs a new kernel while not building && installing world everytime. Yes I hang my head in shame. -- Med vänlig hälsning, Cheers! Joachim Strömbergson ============================================================================ Joachim Strömbergson - ASIC designer, nice to *cute* animals. snail: phone: mail & web: Sävenäsgatan 5A +46 31 - 27 98 47 watchman@ludd.luth.se 416 72 Göteborg +46 733 75 97 02 www.ludd.luth.se/~watchman ============================================================================ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message