Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel freezes

2009-06-06 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Am Samstag 06 Juni 2009 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: > > > > If the problem persists, start testing your hardware. > > > > How? I don't have access to special test equipment to test hardware. > > This is the only AM2(+) board and the only AM2 CPU I have. The RAM is > > also unique to this machine.

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel freezes

2009-06-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 06 Juni 2009, Alexander Puchmayr wrote: > Am Samstag 06 Juni 2009 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: > > *sigh* Ok, just for starters - all AMD cpus of the Athlon64 architecture > > have a builtin agpgart. This agpgart functions also as an iommu. This is > > a great hack to have a hardware io

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel freezes

2009-06-06 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Am Samstag 06 Juni 2009 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: > *sigh* Ok, just for starters - all AMD cpus of the Athlon64 architecture > have a builtin agpgart. This agpgart functions also as an iommu. This is > a great hack to have a hardware iommu . Intel does not have this, so they > rely on software

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel freezes

2009-06-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 06 Juni 2009, Alexander Puchmayr wrote: > Hi there! > > This week I've tried to setup a home-server, but the system is highly > instable. The first symptoms were lots of page allocation errors, which > disappeared after setting the internal memory allocator from SLUB to SLAB > and increa

[gentoo-user] Kernel freezes

2009-06-06 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Hi there! This week I've tried to setup a home-server, but the system is highly instable. The first symptoms were lots of page allocation errors, which disappeared after setting the internal memory allocator from SLUB to SLAB and increasing the min_free_kbytes in /proc/sys/vm from 8MB to 20MB.