On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Roland Orre wrote:
> It seems as my "stuck on TLB IPI wait [CPU#1]" problems disappeared
> when I changed from OSS to ALSA.
Hmm
> gcc 2.95.2, which, according to the linux smp documents is not
> trusty on the kernel. I then recompiled both kernels with gcc 2.7.2.3
> and after that it worked much better, not so many spontaneous crashes.
> I still got the "stuck on TLB IPI wait" although. I then tried to change
> from OSS to ALSA (ALSA with SB Live is just wonderful...) on both
> machines and then got rid of the "stuck on TLB IPI wait" completely
> and much more stable systems.
I had recompiled my kernel after the 2.2.16 patches came out but redhat had
no kernel update yet. I did notice quite some problems, most notably freezes
of a one to two seconds. Syslog would log a message about a changed media, and
then I noticed it was (un)loading the ide module when those freezes happened.
I compiled ide into the kernel (the machine has scsi disks but an ide cdrom)
and that fixed those freezes. When redhat came with their updates kernel rpm,
I installed that one.
I haven't had a crash apart from that one time I posted about.
I also have sound on this machine, using the OSS es1370 module.
> Any hints of how/what to log to catch such events as the machine
> has to be rebooted, it is not responding to anything as keyboard,
> mouse or ethernet ?
A serial console?
Paul Wouters
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