From owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 26 01:09:39 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C528416A420 for ; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 01:09:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ltgator333@yahoo.com) Received: from web40729.mail.yahoo.com (web40729.mail.yahoo.com [66.218.92.67]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4346743D46 for ; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 01:09:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ltgator333@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 54060 invoked by uid 60001); 26 Aug 2005 01:09:39 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=QAP7tP75BY3e9kmWjrEQpixew2FcjbCmLlH44IdGzkBekfWntcIg8ejmYSwKYAX2VB7N5bY/Q/orFs/c1C0+KF3kap9L+rfc5C5lBjYOSVnMtN1sStq3UmxhMs0gR6B/073CV3hb32ak1DRdGXdPBDvj7zCVvpCJ4ME/y+VceE0= ; Message-ID: <20050826010939.54058.qmail@web40729.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [24.56.195.69] by web40729.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 18:09:38 PDT Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 18:09:38 -0700 (PDT) From: LT Cornell To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org, freebsd-ia32@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: Subject: Free BSD 5.x X-BeenThere: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD SMP implementation group List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 01:09:39 -0000 I've been having problems with FreeBSD since I got version 5.3, it ran great on my small junk system, but for some reason it would constantly freeze and or panic out on my dual processor system. I've just gotten version 5.4, and after panicing out through the first two install attemps, it's running ok. I've recompiled the kernel with the generic SMP config and then again with my own config, but I'm constantly getting a message about 'Warning- DMA write interrupt seen but fired' after the computer has frozen up for a few seconds, and then it will resume. It also doesn't seem to be running as quickly, I've ran versions 4.11 and 5.1 on the same system with no problems. I have a- Dual AMD Athlon MP's Chaintech MoBo AMD 768MPX chipset Promise Fastrack ATA -133 RAID controller Hitachi deskstar 7K250 Any thoughts? thanx, LT ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs