>>>>> "brent" == Brent Hasty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
brent> I am having some seriously unwelcom smp kernel instabilities using MDK 9.0, brent> using a msi k7d-m motherboard and dual athlon mp processors. I have a hp brent> office jet g85 printer/fax/scanner, that will crash the kernel hard shortly brent> after xdm loads. Though it works in uni-processor mode fine. brent> Running in smp Could you told me what messages it told you when it crash the kernel? Do you know what driver use your printer/fax/scanner? brent> mode crunching seti or using a java based distributed processing program, I brent> wake to find my machine hard locked. When I say hard locked means no telnet, brent> no ctrl alt del, no ctrl alt backspace, no ctrl alt f1-f6, not even the L-alt Humm, I am having not problems with Big Loads on Athlon MP (mine is a gigabyte motherboard). brent> sysrequest r-s-e-i-u-b, is working to unlock the kernel. I am having to brent> resort to the reset button, IIIIKKKKK. Good thing for jerneled filesystems brent> (ext3, and ReiserFS) (and my intel raid controller with 256mb cashe). what driver use that intel raid card? brent> I have almost never seen where the L-alt sysrequest key sequence would not brent> shut the machine down semi gracefully. brent> Have there been any major kernel revisions that might help to alliviate these brent> problems? Are you usinng high-mem (i.e. more than 768MB of RAM). Later, Juan. -- In theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice they are different -- Larry McVoy
