Actually it is on purpose that I did not mention VIA and the PCI latency problem in the subject line. I believe that we have two different problems (unfortunately). The K7S6A was a replacement for an Asus A7V266E with a VIA KT266A chipset. The reson was that we had similar lock-ups, often accompanied by massive disk corruptions which we have not seen with the K7S6A. But most importantly, the first thing we did when we had the A7V266 crashes was to try the enterprise kernel from LM8.1. And it crashed just as easily as the LM8.2 kernel. That is why I think that we have two problems. These two PCs belong to my colleagues who were very frustrated. Now they have found a solution by using the enterprise kernel from LM8.1 running in LM8.2 they are not terribly interseste in pursuing this problem any further.
I think that the problem should really be sorted out. Are there one or two problems (as I think there are)? By making a google search I found that Thomas Wanka had a "highmem smp freeze" problem with a Serverworks chipset. Marcelo Tosatti answers this question: The ServerWorks chipsets are problematic. Use the "noapic" boot option. Is this really a third problem. Was it solved by the "noapic" option? Or do we really have a problem with highmem and 2.4.18?? -- Bjarne On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 19:36, Nicolas ROBAUX wrote: > Le Mercredi 15 Mai 2002 19:10, vous avez �crit : > > I need some help (again): > > > > We have encountered a total freeze while > > copying files from an SGI/IRIX system > > (using NFS) onto a local disk on a PC > > with an Elitegroup K7S6A/SiS745 MoBo, > > and more than 1Gb RAM, running the LM 8.2 > > enterprise kernel 2.4.18-6mdkenterprise. > > This was repeated many times on two > > different PCs having identical > > motherboards (K7S6A/SiS745). > > Then the same experiment was done with > > the standard LM8.2 2.4.18-6mdk kernel. > > Exactly same thing with a MSI 6330 Lite 3 (VIA KT133A Chipset) / Duron 900, > standard kernel of the 8.2, on a linux box running as a gateway (no X serveur > running, "pure" console) from cable-modem (Motorola Docsis Surfboard) to > wireless personnal network (gatewaydev is Elsa PCI-11). Freezes randomly 2 or > 3 times per day, but seems to happen more often on network activity > > N. > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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