Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 08:58:54 +0200 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> To: Steve Watt <steve@Watt.COM> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IRQ entropy causes panics? Message-ID: <199901080658.IAA17036@greenpeace.grondar.za> In-Reply-To: Your message of " Wed, 06 Jan 1999 00:31:22 PST." <19990106003122.A1906@wattres.Watt.COM> References: <19990106003122.A1906@wattres.Watt.COM>
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Steve Watt wrote: > I have just finished setting up my 2.2.8-STABLE box, and I just noticed an > "interesting" bug. If one configures the rand_irq in rc.conf to be a > reasonable-seeming set (the PCI bus 0 irq and some serial ports that only > get used for UUCP), the system seems to become quite unstable, and panics > fairly regularly (every few hours, but quite variable) with a stack trace > very similar to: Don't hook Irq 0, it is not very random; hook your serial ports, SCSI controller and Ethernet card; those all work pretty well. M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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