Re: Ultra-5 freezing

2014-10-08 Thread BERTRAND Joël
scar a écrit : BERTRAND Joël wrote on 09/11/2014 12:41 PM: Hello, scar a écrit : how can i test RAM and other hardware, for example? You can use diag_switch? = true and diag_level = max (with a null modem serial line). i set these options but it doesn't seem to do anything... i

Re: Ultra-5 freezing

2014-09-15 Thread Hermann Lauer
On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 07:44:31PM +0200, BERTRAND Jo??l wrote: hmm well where will this info usually show up? in the system/kernel logs? if it's not showing up then that means the freezes must be caused by something other than ECC errors? On console and system logs. Freezes can be

Re: Ultra-5 freezing

2014-09-15 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Hermann Lauer a écrit : On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 07:44:31PM +0200, BERTRAND Jo??l wrote: hmm well where will this info usually show up? in the system/kernel logs? if it's not showing up then that means the freezes must be caused by something other than ECC errors? On console and

Re: Ultra-5 freezing

2014-09-15 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
BERTRAND Joël wrote: Hermann Lauer a écrit : On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 07:44:31PM +0200, BERTRAND Jo??l wrote: hmm well where will this info usually show up? in the system/kernel logs? if it's not showing up then that means the freezes must be caused by something other than ECC errors?

Re: Ultra-5 freezing

2014-09-15 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Mark Morgan Lloyd a écrit : BERTRAND Joël wrote: Hermann Lauer a écrit : On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 07:44:31PM +0200, BERTRAND Jo??l wrote: hmm well where will this info usually show up? in the system/kernel logs? if it's not showing up then that means the freezes must be caused by something

Re: Ultra-5 freezing

2014-09-14 Thread scar
BERTRAND Joël wrote on 09/13/2014 03:37 PM: If I remember, ECC errors are corrected by psycho. Psycho (and schizo) return some information about memory error like corrected or uncorrectable errors. If you only see corrected errors, you have to change a memory module, but system should run

Re: Ultra-5 freezing

2014-09-14 Thread BERTRAND Joël
scar a écrit : BERTRAND Joël wrote on 09/13/2014 03:37 PM: If I remember, ECC errors are corrected by psycho. Psycho (and schizo) return some information about memory error like corrected or uncorrectable errors. If you only see corrected errors, you have to change a memory module, but

Re: Ultra-5 freezing

2014-09-13 Thread scar
hi thank you all for the responses. sounds like i need to try older 2.6 kernel... hopefully can do this with apt-get because i dont want to reinstall OS. BSD is an OS i am scared of :) but have been wanting to try it again so perhaps will take the plunge again and try NetBSD if i cannot get

Re: Ultra-5 freezing

2014-09-13 Thread BERTRAND Joël
scar a écrit : and now that i think harder, i think i do remember seeing some ECC errors in the system log back when i was running SunOS. maybe the RAM does have some issues but the ECC was properly handled by SunOS so i never experienced any problems. can anyone speak about ECC handling with

Re: Ultra-5 freezing

2014-09-12 Thread Hermann Lauer
Hello, On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 03:03:40AM +0300, Aaro Koskinen wrote: On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 09:41:09PM +0200, BERTRAND Joël wrote: BUT : for several months, Linux/Sparc64 is unfortunately not stable anymore (or completely broken). After 2.6.35 kernel, I can see random deadlock on all my

Re: Ultra-5 freezing

2014-09-12 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Aaro Koskinen wrote: Hi, On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 09:41:09PM +0200, BERTRAND Joël wrote: BUT : for several months, Linux/Sparc64 is unfortunately not stable anymore (or completely broken). After 2.6.35 kernel, I can see random deadlock on all my sparc64 (sun4v _and_ sun4u). Now, I run NetBSD or

Re: Ultra-5 freezing

2014-09-12 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Mark Morgan Lloyd a écrit : Aaro Koskinen wrote: Hi, On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 09:41:09PM +0200, BERTRAND Joël wrote: BUT : for several months, Linux/Sparc64 is unfortunately not stable anymore (or completely broken). After 2.6.35 kernel, I can see random deadlock on all my sparc64 (sun4v _and_

Re: Ultra-5 freezing

2014-09-12 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
BERTRAND Joël wrote: Mark Morgan Lloyd a écrit : Aaro Koskinen wrote: Hi, On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 09:41:09PM +0200, BERTRAND Joël wrote: BUT : for several months, Linux/Sparc64 is unfortunately not stable anymore (or completely broken). After 2.6.35 kernel, I can see random deadlock on all

Re: Ultra-5 freezing

2014-09-12 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Mark Morgan Lloyd a écrit : BERTRAND Joël wrote: Mark Morgan Lloyd a écrit : Aaro Koskinen wrote: Hi, On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 09:41:09PM +0200, BERTRAND Joël wrote: BUT : for several months, Linux/Sparc64 is unfortunately not stable anymore (or completely broken). After 2.6.35 kernel, I can

Ultra-5 freezing

2014-09-11 Thread scar
hi i have an Ultra-5 which has been housed in a datacenter for several years. It used to be running SunOS 5.9 and i didn't experience any problems with it. As that OS became obsolete, I installed Wheezy on the box not too long ago but now am experiencing hard freezes with no info in the system

Re: Ultra-5 freezing

2014-09-11 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Hello, scar a écrit : hi i have an Ultra-5 which has been housed in a datacenter for several years. It used to be running SunOS 5.9 and i didn't experience any problems with it. As that OS became obsolete, I installed Wheezy on the box not too long ago but now am experiencing hard

Re: Ultra-5 freezing

2014-09-11 Thread Patrick Baggett
Hi Scar, When you say you are experiencing hard freezes, can you give a time frame? From you email it sounds like this: * Installed Wheezy (works 100% perfectly?) * Some time passes * Now, it hard freezes (at boot? after a minute? after an hour? one week?) I don't have problems with my Sun

Re: Ultra-5 freezing

2014-09-11 Thread Aaro Koskinen
Hi, On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 09:41:09PM +0200, BERTRAND Joël wrote: BUT : for several months, Linux/Sparc64 is unfortunately not stable anymore (or completely broken). After 2.6.35 kernel, I can see random deadlock on all my sparc64 (sun4v _and_ sun4u). Now, I run NetBSD or Solaris 10. But