From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 29 06:09:15 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9167A16A4CE for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 06:09:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp003.bizmail.yahoo.com (smtp003.bizmail.yahoo.com [216.136.130.195]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6070343D5A for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 06:09:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from noackjr@alumni.rice.edu) Received: from unknown (HELO optimator.noacks.org) (noackjr@supercrime.org@70.240.198.174 with login) by smtp003.bizmail.yahoo.com with SMTP; 29 Nov 2004 06:09:15 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by optimator.noacks.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77D286152; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 00:09:14 -0600 (CST) Received: from optimator.noacks.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (optimator.noacks.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 71447-08; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 00:09:13 -0600 (CST) Received: from compgeek.noacks.org (compgeek [192.168.1.10]) by optimator.noacks.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFC0B614E; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 00:09:12 -0600 (CST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by compgeek.noacks.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id iAT69Blb000663; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 00:09:12 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from noackjr@alumni.rice.edu) Message-ID: <41AABD07.2080808@alumni.rice.edu> Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 00:09:11 -0600 From: Jon Noack User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041128) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Aykut KARA References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at noacks.org cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SMP support problem - panic: APIC: Previous IPI is stuck X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: noackjr@alumni.rice.edu List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 06:09:15 -0000 On 11/28/04 19:26, Aykut KARA wrote: > We are using FreeBSD 5.3R on our quad(4) cpu server. Our problem is, which I > mentioned in subject line, "panic: APIC: Previous IPI is stuck". When server > gives such an error, it stops responding ... > > I have searched all mailing lists but I can not find a solution except > disabling SMP support in kernel which can not handle the traffic. What can > be done in this situation? I will be pleased for your advises... You sure you searched the mailing lists? ;-) Stephan Uphoff produced a patch that might fix it and posted to current@ about it 2 weeks ago: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-November/043156.html Jon