Having disabled the SMP in the kernel. The box is running with Hypterthreading Turned on thus using 2 virtual CPU's.
Would this indicatate that the problem is with the second CPU? Or does this prove nothing... Jonathan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonathan Gilpin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "David Malone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Don Bowman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2003 1:22 AM Subject: Re: kern/59719 Re: 4.9 Stable Crashes on SuperMicro with SMP > I've run memtest (memtest86.com) kindly provided by Don and it passed all > the tests. I've installed installed a kernel module to test for memory > errors and found that again no memory errors are found... So this means it's > either a problem with the CPU's or a geniune bug in the kernel. (bugger!) > > I'm going to switch the CPU's around (we dont have any spare) and then try > and get spares from my supplier to test with. Today I aslo enabled > Hypterthreading in the BIOS and Disabled MPS 1.4. This had no effect and the > box continued to crash... > > The strange thing is that this box ran fine using Suse... > > The box BTW is a SuperMicro 6013-I (some of you have asked). > > Is it worth enabling any debug stuff in the kernel? I'm not familair with > gdb but can follow instructions to provide more info to anyone investigating > possible bugs such as these... > > Unless the switching of the CPU's around works I'm going to have to go back > to 1 CPU for stability... > > Jonathan > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David Malone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Jonathan Gilpin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, November 27, 2003 2:09 PM > Subject: Re: 4.9 Stable Crashes on SuperMicro with SMP > > > > On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 10:35:49PM -0000, Jonathan Gilpin wrote: > > > Further Crashes as reported before: > > > > Both of these crashes could potentially be caused by hardware or > > memory problems. While it is possible it's a bug of some sort, I'd > > start by checking out my hardware, if I were you... > > > > David. > > > _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
