Re: 5.2.1 SMP problems
Hi! Installed 5.2.1 on a high load server - albeit not recommended - and it was working perfectly with SMP support. It picked up 4 cpu's and appeared to be using them all. (The box is a dual 2.4gig Xeon machine). Anyway, the box was as I said under quite a bit of load, and would die about once a day - just reboot. I looked into it a bit and found whenever I put more load on (e.g. a make install in ports) it would panic - vm_load_page or something like that - sorry about being so vague. Anyway I took out SMP support, and now it boots with 2 cpu's - one normal Xeon + HT for the second (no idea how to disable that - but I don't need to)... its been running perfect for 4 days now and I put it under SERIOUS load.. has anyone else had SMP problems on 5.2.1? I put 5.2.1-RELEASE on an IBM Netfinity 5000 (dual Pentium III) and I had problems, although different from yours. This system has some warning LEDs on the motherboard which light up when something is wrong. Quite often, when booting, the NMI and PCI1 LEDs would light up, the message NMI ISA 34, EISA ff appears among the boot messages and system reboots shortly after that. PCI1 LED indicates a problem with the first PCI bus, which is where I have IBM ServeRAID controller. Interesting thing is that sometimes this problem during booting does not happen and once the system boots successfully there are never any problems. When I removed the second CPU, the problem disappeared. I am not quite convinced yet that the problem is completely gone (haven't rebooted too many times) but it certainly has been greatly reduced. Downgrading the firmware of ServeRAID controller from 6.10 to 5.10 (as recommended by another poster on this list) may also have contributed to resolving the problem. But the first thing I did was removing the 2nd CPU and I successfully booted several times between that and downgrading the ServeRAID firmware. I *seem* to remember one NMI-boot after removing the second CPU, but I'm not quite sure my memory isn't failing me - it has been quite a rough ride with this NF5000 during the past few days. Anyway, *before* removing the second CPU, the boot failure rate was 50%, so I'm sure removing the second CPU did help, even if downgrading the ServeRAID firmware may have helped further. -- Toomas Aas | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ * Feeling compressed ARJ you? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 5.2.1 SMP problems
Le 04/06/2004 à 11:47:14+0200, Dave Raven a écrit Hi all, Installed 5.2.1 on a high load server - albeit not recommended - and it was working perfectly with SMP support. It picked up 4 cpu's and appeared to be using them all. (The box is a dual 2.4gig Xeon machine). Anyway, the box was as I said under quite a bit of load, and would die about once a day - just reboot. I looked into it a bit and found whenever I put more load on (e.g. a make install in ports) it would panic - vm_load_page or something like that - sorry about being so vague. Anyway I took out SMP support, and now it boots with 2 cpu's - one normal Xeon + HT for the second (no idea how to disable that - but I don't need to)... its been running perfect for 4 days now and I put it under SERIOUS load.. has anyone else had SMP problems on 5.2.1? I couldn't find anything about it at first glimpse... Have you shure this problem is with FreeBSD ? First check your memory with some software like memtest86 (http://www.memtest86.com/) When I've this kind of problem, always it's because some error in RAM. Regards -- Albert SHIH Universite de Paris 7 (Denis DIDEROT) U.F.R. de Mathematiques. Heure local/Local time: Fri Jun 4 13:43:52 CEST 2004 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: 5.2.1 SMP problems
Well all the tests I ran (about 2 memory testers and 2 benchmarks) caused the box to die - even the make installs did half the time. Now that I've disabled SMP there are no problems, and the same tests are working perfectly... The only thing I've changed is the SMP support, and now its been running for 4 days, before it wouldn't run for 12 hours Thanks Dave -Original Message- From: Albert Shih [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 04 June 2004 01:47 PM To: Dave Raven Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 5.2.1 SMP problems Le 04/06/2004 à 11:47:14+0200, Dave Raven a écrit Hi all, Installed 5.2.1 on a high load server - albeit not recommended - and it was working perfectly with SMP support. It picked up 4 cpu's and appeared to be using them all. (The box is a dual 2.4gig Xeon machine). Anyway, the box was as I said under quite a bit of load, and would die about once a day - just reboot. I looked into it a bit and found whenever I put more load on (e.g. a make install in ports) it would panic - vm_load_page or something like that - sorry about being so vague. Anyway I took out SMP support, and now it boots with 2 cpu's - one normal Xeon + HT for the second (no idea how to disable that - but I don't need to)... its been running perfect for 4 days now and I put it under SERIOUS load.. has anyone else had SMP problems on 5.2.1? I couldn't find anything about it at first glimpse... Have you shure this problem is with FreeBSD ? First check your memory with some software like memtest86 (http://www.memtest86.com/) When I've this kind of problem, always it's because some error in RAM. Regards -- Albert SHIH Universite de Paris 7 (Denis DIDEROT) U.F.R. de Mathematiques. Heure local/Local time: Fri Jun 4 13:43:52 CEST 2004 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 5.2.1 SMP problems
Dave Raven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well all the tests I ran (about 2 memory testers and 2 benchmarks) caused the box to die - even the make installs did half the time. Now that I've disabled SMP there are no problems, and the same tests are working perfectly... The only thing I've changed is the SMP support, and now its been running for 4 days, before it wouldn't run for 12 hours You may want to take this problem to hackers@ (with more details about the panic and the hardware involved - the actual panic message and dmesg output) and see if anyone is aware of the problem. Since 5 is in heavy development, it's possible that this problem has already been dealt with and fixed in 5-CURRENT. If not, I'm sure the development team would be interested in your assistance in fixing it. Thanks Dave -Original Message- From: Albert Shih [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 04 June 2004 01:47 PM To: Dave Raven Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 5.2.1 SMP problems Le 04/06/2004 à 11:47:14+0200, Dave Raven a écrit Hi all, Installed 5.2.1 on a high load server - albeit not recommended - and it was working perfectly with SMP support. It picked up 4 cpu's and appeared to be using them all. (The box is a dual 2.4gig Xeon machine). Anyway, the box was as I said under quite a bit of load, and would die about once a day - just reboot. I looked into it a bit and found whenever I put more load on (e.g. a make install in ports) it would panic - vm_load_page or something like that - sorry about being so vague. Anyway I took out SMP support, and now it boots with 2 cpu's - one normal Xeon + HT for the second (no idea how to disable that - but I don't need to)... its been running perfect for 4 days now and I put it under SERIOUS load.. has anyone else had SMP problems on 5.2.1? I couldn't find anything about it at first glimpse... Have you shure this problem is with FreeBSD ? First check your memory with some software like memtest86 (http://www.memtest86.com/) When I've this kind of problem, always it's because some error in RAM. Regards -- Albert SHIH Universite de Paris 7 (Denis DIDEROT) U.F.R. de Mathematiques. Heure local/Local time: Fri Jun 4 13:43:52 CEST 2004 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
