Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 14:24:22 -0800 From: wade <wade@wavefire.com> To: "Joel M. Baldwin" <qumqats@outel.org>, Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 5.0 Freezes under high load with SMP. Message-ID: <3.0.32.20030116142422.01f235d0@mail.wavefire.com>
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At 04:22 AM 1/16/03 -0800, Joel M. Baldwin wrote: >--On Tuesday, January 14, 2003 8:15 PM +0100 Wilko Bulte ><wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> wrote: > >> On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 11:12:30AM -0800, Nate Lawson wrote: >>> On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, wade wrote: >>> > Although GENERIC functions perfectly, when I enable SMP in >>> > GENERIC, the box freezes during big build jobs ( i.e. buildworld. >>> > ). This box functioned well in SMP mode und 4.7-STABLE. The big >>> > problem is that freezing does not leave core files or any other >>> > debugging information. >>> > >>> > Hardware: >>> > ASUS CUV4X-D >>> > 2 X PIII 600 MHz Coppermine. >>> > 512 MB 133MHz RAM. >>> >>> Hit ctl-alt-esc on console to enter DDB (enable this kernel option >>> if you haven't already). Type "trace" to find out what is hung. If >>> this doesn't work, attach a serial console and do a break there and >>> "trace". >> >> Interesting, as I have been trying the last 3 days to reproduce >> freezes that people reported on 5.0 on (specifically) the ASUS BP6 >> mainboard. > >I was one of the people having 'hard-lock' problems. > >I have not had a single unexplained lock since I upgraded my BIOS >to the latest, version RU, and did another makeworld. I can't say >which fixed the 'hard-locks', the BIOS upgrade, or changes >in the kernel. > >ACPI does not appear to work on this motherboard. I have to >disable it. The attached asl file gives errors when I try >using iasl on it. > >Anyone have suggestions for the correct fixes to it? > >> I ran continuous make -j16 buildworlds to see if I could break it, >> but no luck (or very good luck, depends on your perspective ;-) >> >> -- >>| / o / /_ _ wilko@FreeBSD.org >>| /|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Ok... now I feel like an amature. After flashing the BIOS, I can't crash the box. Not so far anyway. Thanx for all the help/suggestions guys. I know now for next time :) -Wade Klaver. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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