On Sat, 19 Feb 2000 20:02:49 +0100 (MET), you wrote:
>Matt Yurman wrote:
>
>> has anyone else noticed that the lockups under high cpu use appear
>> to be because one cpu drops offline? i would get the same sort of
>> lockups occasionally, but since i run seti it is more frequent.
>
>This is what I'd expect from a "spinlock programming error".
>
>I'm a device driver writer, and porting a driver from a different OS
>to Linux (RIO), some "locking issues" came up, which (on my single CPU
>system) showed up as complete lockups. But if youhave two CPUs, it
>should show up as one CPU getting wedged.
>
>On BP6, most of the lockups seem to be that the whole system freezes,
>so either there is a hardware lockup, or somehow Linux happens to
>get stuck in a spinlock-deadlock, but with BOTH CPUs.
>
Tthis would make sense. I was at the Atlanta Linux Showcase last October and sat in
on a
presentation about smp and device drivers. I currently suspect that the problem may
be the XFree86
version that I'm using. I have a Voodoo3 and using their server I have experianced
loss of kb input
and some other anomolies.
>> for what its worth, i do have a 300w ps and good airflow with alpha
>> hsf combos
>
>What kernel?
currently running 2.2.14 from the stock tarballs
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