On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 10:59:06AM +0200, Robert Sander wrote:
> Hello Everyone!
>
> Using the last kernel-releases up to 2.1.125 I got weird scsi timeouts,
> causing me to reboot the machine (GA-686DLX, 2x 233 PII, Adaptec 7880
> controller onboard).
>
> I have the suspect, that this is a cabling problem. Can anybody confirm
> it? I hope this is not a software problem, because I can easier fix the
> hardware. ;-)
>
> I attached the mptable output for convenience.
> The message "stuck on smp_invalidate_needed IPI wait" should not frighten
> me, or should it? The kernel says it sometimes but work is going on and
> I don't think it belongs to the problem.
>
> There is another thing: Under X sometimes I sometimes loose mouse and
> keyboard non reproducable, but when I kill the X-Server from another
> machine, work is going on...
> This is annoying but maybe not related to SMP.
I'm running a SuperMicro P6DLE dual 300 configuration with a BusLogic
958, a BusLogic 958D and a Qlogic ISP card. During periods of heavy
SCSI traffic (like IOGEN) the system crawls. I can run my benchmark
for about 2 seconds, then the thing stops. I'm getting no errors on the
console, but IOGEN doesn't work. The last time I benchmarked this
machine it was running 2.1.99 without any problems.
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Eric Roman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Department of Applied Mathematics
(516)632-8545 SUNY/Stony Brook
