From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Mar 8 11:38:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.122.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5251837B43A for ; Fri, 8 Mar 2002 11:38:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.11.3/8.10.1) with ESMTP id g28JcYe08446; Fri, 8 Mar 2002 11:38:34 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 11:38:34 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White To: Bill Swingle Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Subject: Re: DMA/SCB timeouts with fxp driver In-Reply-To: <20020305213726.GA5438@dub.net> Message-ID: <20020308113635.O6025-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> X-All-Your-Base: are belong to us MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Bill Swingle wrote: > On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 01:21:06PM -0800, Doug White wrote: > > On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Bill Swingle wrote: > > > > > I have a farm full of Rackable Systems 1U machines. Recently I've had a > > > few machines that were crashing on a all-to-frequent basis. Just prior > > > to crashing the machine would barf these lines into the logs several > > > thousand times: > > > > NMI bad. May be a DIMM going down. > > > > Also, are these the Tyan 251X / Serverworks III chipset machines? > > I believe so. They're definatly ServerWorks chipsets although I'm not > sure which version. If it's the standard dual-proc 1u little rackables, it's the tyan. I had one running -STABLE and -CURRENT running under my desk for a while without any problems, although we have several on site running Linux having corrupted filesystems. sos claims it's a IDE DMA issue. Can't say I've seen NMI storms on them at all. Apart from the IDE DMA and linux bugs they've been quite stable. Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message