Re: SMP Netfinity 340 hangs under 2.4.19

Bill Davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com)
Wed, 4 Sep 2002 16:18:27 -0400 (EDT)


On Fri, 23 Aug 2002, Maurice Volaski wrote:

> A single processor Netfinity 340 running RedHat 7.1 and kernel 2.4.18
> was recently upgraded to
>
> 1) 1 GB RAM
> 2) second processor (1 Ghz Xeon)
> 3) 2.4.19 for SMP with bigmem and added NFS server patches and
> ext3-related patches.
>
> Heavily used processes are netatalk, samba, and NFS.
>
> The box is now hard locking periodically (every several days).

Boot with the noapic option. Try a stock kernel before you add all those
patches.

-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.

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