From owner-freebsd-smp Wed Sep 13 10:37:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (pike.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5636237B422 for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 10:37:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jhb@localhost) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA38755; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 10:37:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb) From: John Baldwin Message-Id: <200009131737.KAA38755@pike.osd.bsdi.com> Subject: Re: Smp instablility issues. In-Reply-To: <004e01c01da8$75d24680$03030303@john> from John at "Sep 13, 2000 01:31:32 pm" To: John Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 10:37:35 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL68 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org John wrote: [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > Hi I am running the following hardware setup: > Dual PIII 700E > Tyan 1834 MB > 3 128 dims & 1 258 dim all pc100 > 1 intel etherexpress pro nic > 1 netgear fa310tx nic > 1 ibm udma 66 7200 rpm hd > 1 wd udma 66 7200 rpm hd > > When I try building a kernel when I am booted up on my custom kernel with smp support I get signal 11's & or misc compiling errors like code errors. When I boot a generic kernel which does not have smp support I can compile a kernel. This is usually indicative of bad hardware. With SMP you are probably working some of your hardware just a bit more and/or generating a bit more heat in the machine, and apparently that is enough to cause your hardware to fail. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message