Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 11:42:01 +0100 (CET) From: Administrator IPA <administrator@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de> To: "Dreamtime.net Inc." <clients@dreamtime.net> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, =?iso-8859-1?B?ocKhTWFv?= <pcdvd.master@msa.hinet.net>, <freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: SMP Error in VIA 694 based bord Message-ID: <20020326113111.R9369-100000@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de> In-Reply-To: <CKEELIENECBJLIHMDDBIMEADEAAA.clients@dreamtime.net>
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On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Dreamtime.net Inc. wrote: > The board we have is the Thunder LE S2510 using a serverworks chipset. > > S > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Terry Lambert [mailto:tlambert2@mindspring.com] > > Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 4:40 PM > > To: Dreamtime.net Inc. > > Cc: ¡Â¡Mao; freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG > > Subject: Re: SMP Error in VIA 694 based bord > > > > > > Neither of you say a thing about what the actual crash is. > > > > If it's a trap 12, try adding "option DISABLE_PSE" to your > > config file. > > > > The Tyan Tiger is a bit more sensitive to coherency problems > > than most SMP motherboards. It's the VIA chipset, not the > > motherboard itself, I think. > > > > -- Terry > > > > "Dreamtime.net Inc." wrote: > > > > > > Part 1.1 Type: Plain Text (text/plain) > > > Encoding: 8bit > > Hello. Well, we use two SMP motherboards of the 'accused' typ you mentioned above, one is a ASUS CUV4X-D (VIA Chipset) and one is a TYAN Thunder 2500/Slot 1 technique mainboard. With the VIA chipset based mobo we never have had any kind of problem, but a lot with the TYAN, but those problems were 'selfmade'. IRQ routing on the mobo backplain seems to be a focus of the board designer, not the chipset itself. Our TYAN 2500 has a lot of problems when using an additional fxp-type NIC (Intel EtherExpress Server NIC in addition to the built-in one) and when I did a firmware update of the AMI Enterprise 1600 MegaRAID controller. Moving it to its appropriate 66MHz/64Bit PCI slot and 'juggling' with the slot for the second NIC solves the problems, this machine is one of the stablest machines around here, no spontanous reboot within the last 6 months and I keep on track with 4.5-STABLE (update this day). Yes, I HAD a lot of problems with the TYAN, but these problems were solveable problems. Maybe the VIA chipset based TYAN boards has the same problems like the ServerWorks chipsets and a 'relatively sure' behaviour is to detect this: spontanous reboots or a reboot when heavy network duty is a factor or when massive SCSI/ATA activities are given. Crashing like a clockwork sounds like that: check your /etc/crontab to see what jobs are done regularyliy at this time the system crashes ... I checked this also and I found out, that our reboots were done always within a 'narrow defined' time window ... Hope this is not a heap of trash what I said ... Oliver -- MfG O. Hartmann ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de ---------------------------------------------------------------- IT-Administration des Institut fuer Physik der Atmosphaere (IPA) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz Becherweg 21 55099 Mainz Tel: +496131/3924662 (Maschinensaal) Tel: +496131/3924144 FAX: +496131/3923532 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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