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Date:      Sun, 11 Jul 1999 14:16:47 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
To:        freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 3.2-STABLE up & running on Abit BP6 (dual Celeron socket370)
Message-ID:  <199907111216.OAA02314@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>

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sthaug@nethelp.no wrote in list.freebsd-smp:
 > Yup. Finished the buildworld now, clocked in at 56 minutes. This is
 > with only one IBM 10 GB IDE disk. Will try some more as soon as I have
 > moved a Cheetah over to the new machine.

I'd be interested to hear how stable your system is running
under real load (i.e. load > 5 or even > 10, and with serious
hard disk and network activity).

My dual Celeron-466 system freezes after some random time
(could be a few hours) under heavy load (no panic, keyboard is
dead, so I can't get into DDB).  A simple "make world" is
usually not enough to reproduce the problem.  The system runs
perfectly fine with a UP kernel (tried it with both CPUs).

The problem seems to occur less frequently with 4.0-current
(a snapshot from June 22nd); it usually takes 2 or 3 days until
it freezes.  But the problem is still there.

(BTW, I'm running the system overclocked to 2 x 525 MHz, but
the problem is not related to that at all.  It occurs at 466
MHz just the same.)

Regards
   Oliver

PS:  This is an MSI 6120 mainboard with two MSI slot adapters
which have a jumper for dual Celeron support, two Celeron-466
(PPGA) "in the box", 128 Mb of PC100 ECC memory.
The network interface is an MX (Macronix?) 100Mbps card, and
there's an old NCR810 Fast-SCSI adapter and an even older ISA
VGA card (text mode only, no XFree).  Nothing else (well,
floppy drive and PS/2 keyboard).

PPS:  Is there a way I can provide any debug information if
the system just freezes?  It looks like a deadlock somewhere
in the kernel.

PPPS:  "make buildworld" is 52 minutes here, with an old (slow)
IBM DCAS connected to the mentioned NCR810 adapter.

-- 
Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany
(Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de)

"In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt"
                                         (Terry Pratchett)


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