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Date:      Mon, 24 Aug 1998 10:34:21 -0600 (MDT)
From:      "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@plutotech.com>
To:        sos@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        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:  <199808241634.KAA08855@panzer.plutotech.com>
In-Reply-To: <199808240813.KAA06307@sos.freebsd.dk> from =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= at "Aug 24, 98 10:13:13 am"

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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...
> 
> Justin ?? ever tested it under SMP ??

	My home machine is a dual P6-200 box.  (ASUS P/I-P65UP5 w/ C-P6ND
cpu board)  It has been running CAM for well over a year now without any
trouble.

Ken
-- 
Kenneth Merry
ken@plutotech.com

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