On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, ramses wrote:
> First time hearing about this NOAPIC option, what the hell
> is that?
As others have noted, NOAPIC restricts interrupt handling to cpu0.
I run xosload, which has an interrupt display for each cpu, which
makes the effect of this option instantly visible.
I had tried earlier to use the noapic option, but it prevented the
kernel from recognizing my ISA adaptec 152x card. I didn't see any
problems without noapic until I started beating on the SCSI devices,
and then processes accessing scsi would hang in the kernel (wouldn't
die even after a kill -9). One of the scsi disks was repeatedly
corrupted (seemed fixable, though).
I switched to a PCI adaptec 2906 and everything is stable after three
days.
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