On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, Leif Sawyer wrote:
I can also add that my U2 (2x300) is also having the same lockup on high disk activity. I've been able to 'nice' my portage related activity down and avoid it crashing on the last few package emerges, but it's not a cure-all.
If you can easily reproduce this problem, could you try to get some useful debugging info? If you can drop into prom after machine hangs, what backtrace does the ctrace command give you? Could you try compiling the kernel with spinlock debugging ang magic sysrq key support and see if you can get some information on where it hangs that way?
We are hitting some kind of SMP lockup issues in Debian, however it is much harder to reproduce. The automatic sparc build machines (running 2.6.8) occasionally hang when trying to build large packages, like openoffice.org. All attempts to reproduce this failure locally failed so far. As it might be caused by the same bug you are hitting, we would be *very* interested in any progress on this, since these hangs currently are the main obstacle which might prevent the inclusion of sparc port into the next official Debian release.
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