From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Nov 16 9:47:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mail.du.gtn.com (mail.du.gtn.com [194.77.9.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7312D37B4CF for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 09:47:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.cicely.de (cicely.de [194.231.9.142]) by mail.du.gtn.com (8.11.0.Beta3/8.11.0.Beta3) with ESMTP id eAGHlMj24441 (using TLSv1/SSLv3 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168 bits) verified OK); Thu, 16 Nov 2000 18:47:24 +0100 (MET) Received: from cicely8.cicely.de (cicely8.cicely.de [10.1.2.10]) by mail.cicely.de (8.11.0.Beta1/8.11.0.Beta1) with ESMTP id eAGHlC511918; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 18:47:16 +0100 (CET) Received: (from ticso@localhost) by cicely8.cicely.de (8.11.0/8.9.2) id eAGHlCw11875; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 18:47:12 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ticso) Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 18:47:12 +0100 From: Bernd Walter To: Andrew Gallatin Cc: Christian Weisgerber , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMPng stability Message-ID: <20001116184711.A11857@cicely8.cicely.de> References: <14867.63252.979175.633781@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <8v1245$7d8$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> <14868.3077.993148.862591@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <20001116182212.A11802@cicely8.cicely.de> <14868.6549.513864.420865@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <14868.6549.513864.420865@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>; from gallatin@cs.duke.edu on Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 12:32:53PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 12:32:53PM -0500, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > Bernd Walter writes: > > > > Christians box always booted into single user mode if I remember right. > > I asume it has something to do with the number of controllers/disks that > > he has more luck. > > It takes longer than 5 seconds for my SCSI probing ;) > > I did not know this; I had thought all pc164 boxes were toast. > Do we know the exact differences between your box and Christian's? I have a PC164 at 500MHz with an xl Netcard, 3 sym controllers (2x810a 1x895) and an ide disk. Of course several scsi disks and one cdrom. Seriel console at 9600. It has 256M RAM - I tested both 4x64M and 8x32M SIMMs as I had the chance to exchange it during the test phase. AFAIK Christian has at least one sym controller and is using vga console. I don't know anything else about it. What I will try next is plugging a keyboard in and I will setting up an IDE only kernel to see if any of these make a difference. > > <...> > > > > Use the latest source. > > John had commited something related WITNESS today. > > > I'm sorry, I don't understand what you mean. > > Do you have everything up to and including rev 1.108 of > src/sys/kern/kern_synch.c? And do you still panic on boot? No I have 1.105 which was the latest this morning. What I wanted to say is that 1.108 might run and it's not worth compiling with an older version. I hadn't the time to check 1.108. -- B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de ticso@cicely.de Usergroup info@cosmo-project.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message