I am having some seriously unwelcom smp kernel instabilities using MDK 9.0, using a msi k7d-m motherboard and dual athlon mp processors. I have a hp office jet g85 printer/fax/scanner, that will crash the kernel hard shortly after xdm loads. Though it works in uni-processor mode fine. Running in smp mode crunching seti or using a java based distributed processing program, I wake to find my machine hard locked. When I say hard locked means no telnet, no ctrl alt del, no ctrl alt backspace, no ctrl alt f1-f6, not even the L-alt sysrequest r-s-e-i-u-b, is working to unlock the kernel. I am having to resort to the reset button, IIIIKKKKK. Good thing for jerneled filesystems (ext3, and ReiserFS) (and my intel raid controller with 256mb cashe).
I have almost never seen where the L-alt sysrequest key sequence would not shut the machine down semi gracefully. Have there been any major kernel revisions that might help to alliviate these problems?
