Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 10:13:13 +0200 (CEST) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Lars.Koeller@post.uni-bielefeld.de (Lars =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=F6ller?=) Cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG, gibbs@FreeBSD.ORG, ken@plutotech.com Subject: Re: Freeze with SMP and CAM-19980712! Message-ID: <199808240813.KAA06307@sos.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <199808240757.HAA27204@mitch.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de> from =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Lars_K=F6ller?= at "Aug 24, 98 09:57:42 am"
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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 ??
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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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