From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 21 12:58:13 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org 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 6D0BC16A41F for ; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 12:58:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from marcolz@stack.nl) Received: from mailhost.stack.nl (vaak.stack.nl [131.155.140.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E58D43D53 for ; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 12:58:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from marcolz@stack.nl) Received: from hammer.stack.nl (hammer.stack.nl [IPv6:2001:610:1108:5010::153]) by mailhost.stack.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E64FA2FCA; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 14:58:11 +0200 (CEST) Received: by hammer.stack.nl (Postfix, from userid 333) id 6D62966D0; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 14:58:11 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 14:58:11 +0200 From: Marc Olzheim To: Don Bowman Message-ID: <20050721125811.GF61946@stack.nl> References: <2BCEB9A37A4D354AA276774EE13FB8C23A6B41@mailserver.sandvine.com> <20050412150143.GC1570@stack.nl> <20050419083808.GB95574@stack.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="A6N2fC+uXW/VQSAv" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050419083808.GB95574@stack.nl> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD hammer.stack.nl 5.4-STABLE FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE X-URL: http://www.stack.nl/~marcolz/ User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Cc: Marc Olzheim , carlos@infodrive.com.ar, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, Aaron Summers Subject: Re: SuperMicro X5DP8-G2MB/(2)XEON 2.4/1GB RAM 5.4-S Freeze X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 12:58:13 -0000 --A6N2fC+uXW/VQSAv Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 10:38:08AM +0200, Marc Olzheim wrote: > > > The problem is with the periodic SMM interrupt and the bios. > > >=20 > > > The attached program (ich-periodic-smm-disable.c) will fix the proble= m. > > > For more information on what it does, see the Intel ICH3 datasheet. > > >=20 > > > compile as 'gcc ich-periodic-smm-disable.c; ./a.out' and you will be > > > good. > > > Run this on each boot. > > >=20 > > > I think you only need to clear PERIODIC_EN. > >=20 > > Ok, I'll try it right away, thanks a lot! >=20 > This clearly solves it. The machines are now up for longer than a week > for the first time since I booted FreeBSD 5.x on them. Does anyone know whether this workaround is still necessary for newer 5.x's and/or 6.x and current ? Marc --A6N2fC+uXW/VQSAv Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFC35vjezjnobFOgrERArU/AKDHHu5aE9J2Si7vqGYfLfcERmqslgCfaSAp o21EfWA1xrck8g3NcCpgc0g= =D6D+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --A6N2fC+uXW/VQSAv--