On Wednesday 28 May 2003 04:08 pm, Andreas Berg wrote: > At 20:46 2003-05-28, Alan wrote: > >On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 08:39:57PM +0200, Andreas Berg wrote: > > > I've not experienced any lookups and I just tested putting some > > > load on > > > > the > > > > > 3Com nic. A steady flow of 8 megabytes per second for about 5 > > > minutes was no problem. At the same time, I watched a movie with > > > mplayer. > > > >Grrrr..... that sucks (for me anyway :) > > > > > You might want to try the gentoo-sources for your kernel, thats > > > what I'm using. If that doesn't help, it probably has something > > > to do with your > > > > raid > > > >I'll give that a shot. Maybe it's something in the preemp or low > >latency that's causing problems. Have you used any other kernels? > >Another thing that might be causing it is heat (my office is pretty > >warm), assuming you have lm_sensors set up what sort of heat output > > do you have? > > On this box I have only used the gentoo-sources. I have another box > with a Abit NF7 motherboard, also nForce2 based and I've tried a > couple of others on that one with success. The xfs sources ran fine > aswell. The development sources I never got running, probably because > problems with the USB drivers, it frooze on boot. I also used Alan > Cox kernel, but usb didn't work with that one either. I've not > experienced any harddrive or NIC problems on that machine though. Of > course, that one doesn't have the on board 3Com NIC. > > I do not have lm_sensors, but I do have ACPI working and the CPU > temperature is around 46C. Inside the case, its 28C. My other nForce2 > based machine has a CPU temperature that is about 10C higher, but > thats not a problem either. > If I interpret data from the lm_sensors site correctly, we should be able to get it working with a driver for an AMD chipset. in the mean time, I have a temp sensor panel that fits in a 5 1/2 bay that has 2 thermocouples connected. I have one on my Athlon XP 2100 (40 C) and ond on my hdd (39 C).. The CPU has gotten to 45 C under heavy load.
> > > setup since that would be the major difference between our > > > machines. I > > > > have > > > > > a Promise Fasttrack TX2 with 4x80 GB on it in the box, but I only > > > use them while I'm running WinXP. > > > >Strange, I have the same controller with 3x80 on it (for a file > > storage raid5 array) that was being used only in linux before, but > > when I booted up I was getting all sorts of "lost interrupt" > > messages and the boot process just ground to a halt until I > > unplugged all the drives from the card. This was happening just > > doing the kernel probing on boot, before trying to mount them or > > anything. Maybe the kernel again.... I moved the drives over to > > my http/ftp server though, probably a better place for them > > anyway... > > I've not experienced any such problems. The only problem I > encountered upon install was that when I choose a framebuffer mode > the computer completely frooze but when I ran the installation in > plain text mode, it ran fine and now with the gentoo-sources I can > run framebuffer upon boot without any problems. > > >Do you think maybe you could send me your .config, just in case I > > have some sort of strangeness going on that I missed? > > kernel config attached. > > >TIA > > > >alan > > regards, > Andreas -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
