> Hello there. I have gotten intermittent lockups on two different SMP
> Linux machines. No OOPS or anything... just a complete freeze. They
> are ATX and unplugging is the only way to rescue them. Sometimes it
> happens twice a day, sometimes they go a couple of weeks with no
> problems.
> How do I start tracking something like this? One is a dual celeron,
> the other a dual P3-150; neither is overclocked or anything. One is
> IDE, one is SCSI; both have Tulip NICs, that is the only similarity,
> really.
How many Tulip NICs do you have in each machine? I had a lot of
problems with the tulip driver when I upgraded from 2.0.36 to 2.1.x/2.2.x.
There were two solutions that seemed to clear up the problems I was having.
The first solution was to install only one Tulip NIC, however this was
unacceptable, so I opted for solution #2. I got a couple of Intel Ether
Express Pro boards instead. This solved most all of my lockup or other
wierdness headaches. I never got help with this and finally just gave up, so
the cause of this is unknown to me still. I am not certain this is *your*
problem, but it may be worth looking into.
The problem I saw was that the tulip driver would fail to read the MAC
address from the second NIC. I tried putting in debug and such, but I ran out
of time to track it down and replaced the cards...
-dath
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