Re: PROBLEM: crashing kernels

2000-11-30 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > You appear to have the PIIX4 ISA bridge -- it contains an embedded ACPI > controller. It has it's IRQ hardwired to 11. Try to move device IRQs > away from it (by setting IRQ 11 to "ISA/Legacy" in BIOS). While I've not > heard of ACPI IRQ problem

Re: PROBLEM: crashing kernels

2000-11-29 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Mr. Big wrote: > Yes You are right. This Ether Express is integrated on the motherboard, so > we couldn't get it out totally :( But there isn't any cable connected to > it, we also doesn't have the driver in the kernel. This is the same with > the USB too. Do You mind, that t

Re: PROBLEM: crashing kernels

2000-11-28 Thread Mr. Big
> > The output of lspci -v: > [...] > > 00:0e.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 08) > > Subsystem: Intel Corporation 82559 Fast Ethernet LAN on Motherboard > > Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 5 > > Hmm, this is the device yo

Re: PROBLEM: crashing kernels

2000-11-28 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki
On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Mr. Big wrote: > We've disabled the apic, because there was a hint, that maybe there's some > bug with the hardware or software on it. I belive that it's could be > better to use the apic. > > The output of lspci -v: [...] > 00:0e.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 825

Re: PROBLEM: crashing kernels

2000-11-27 Thread Mr. Big
On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Mr. Big wrote: > > > But maybe the /proc/interrupts could be usefull: > >CPU0 CPU1 > > 0: 413111 0 XT-PIC timer > > 1:687 0 XT-PIC keyboard > > 2:

Re: PROBLEM: crashing kernels

2000-11-27 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki
On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Mr. Big wrote: > But maybe the /proc/interrupts could be usefull: >CPU0 CPU1 > 0: 413111 0 XT-PIC timer > 1:687 0 XT-PIC keyboard > 2: 0 0 XT-PIC cascade > 7: 75

Re: readonly /proc/sys/vm/freepages (was: Re: PROBLEM: crashing kernels)

2000-11-27 Thread Roger Larsson
On Sunday 26 November 2000 19:36, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Sun, 26 Nov 2000, Ingo Oeser wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 10:49:50AM +1100, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > You may also get some benefit from running: > > > > > > # echo "512 1024 1536" > /proc/sys/vm/freepages > > > > > > after booting.

Re: PROBLEM: crashing kernels

2000-11-27 Thread Mr. Big
> > How could an APIC 'forget' how to deliver the interrupts? Could this mean > > a problem with the mainboard, or with the CPU? > > Do you have an USB host controller in your system? If so, could you > please send me an output of `/sbin/lspci' and the contents of > /proc/interrupts? I wonder

Re: PROBLEM: crashing kernels

2000-11-27 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki
On Sun, 26 Nov 2000, Mr. Big wrote: > How could an APIC 'forget' how to deliver the interrupts? Could this mean > a problem with the mainboard, or with the CPU? Do you have an USB host controller in your system? If so, could you please send me an output of `/sbin/lspci' and the contents of /pr

Re: PROBLEM: crashing kernels

2000-11-27 Thread Mr. Big
> > In the afternoon we decided to put back the original mainboard+ram+cpu. > > We booted the kernel described above. > > With `noapic', I assume? Yes, of course > > It could be hardware or a driver or whatever. Suggest you > go to a more recent kernel and if the problems persist, > swap hard

Re: PROBLEM: crashing kernels

2000-11-26 Thread Mr. Big
Previous day I followed the hint of Alan, and made a 2.2.14 kernel, with the DAC960 driver taken from the 2.2.17, for these changes I've copied the: drivers/block/DAC960.c drivers/block/DAC960.h drivers/pci/oldrpoc.c include/linux/pci.h from the 2.2.17 sourcetree into the 2.2.14. Ok, it compiled.

readonly /proc/sys/vm/freepages (was: Re: PROBLEM: crashing kernels)

2000-11-26 Thread Ingo Oeser
On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 10:49:50AM +1100, Andrew Morton wrote: > You may also get some benefit from running: > > # echo "512 1024 1536" > /proc/sys/vm/freepages > > after booting. ... which is a NOOP on recent 2.4.0-testX-kernels. So please complain at Rik for this (CC'ed him) ;-) It's simply

Re: PROBLEM: crashing kernels

2000-11-25 Thread Andrew Morton
Nice report. Wish they were all like that. Look: "Mr. Big" wrote: > > I thought that the khttpd is guilty, I won't use it anymore. Next morning > it crashed again, now without khttpd, without high load, without high > memory usage, just the 3Com driver said: > kernel: eth0: Interrupt posted bu

Re: PROBLEM: crashing kernels

2000-11-25 Thread Mr. Big
> Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > benn compiled into the kernel, and not as a module) always gave the > > > errors: > > > > > > eth0: Transmit timed out: status 0050 0090 at 134704418/134704432 > > > eth0: Trying to restart the transmitter... > > > > Known problem. This one migh

Re: PROBLEM: crashing kernels

2000-11-25 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > benn compiled into the kernel, and not as a module) always gave the > > errors: > > > > eth0: Transmit timed out: status 0050 0090 at 134704418/134704432 > > eth0: Trying to restart the transmitter... > > Known problem. This one might be fixed in curre

Re: PROBLEM: crashing kernels

2000-11-25 Thread Alan Cox
> Ok, I'll try. Since I'm not a kernel developer, I have the fool question, > wether it is enough to overwrite the .c and .h files in the 2.2.14 source > tree, or do I need to apply other changes too? I believe that is all you need to do for that driver - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Re: PROBLEM: crashing kernels

2000-11-25 Thread Mr. Big
> > benn compiled into the kernel, and not as a module) always gave the > > errors: > > > > eth0: Transmit timed out: status 0050 0090 at 134704418/134704432 > > eth0: Trying to restart the transmitter... > > Known problem. This one might be fixed in current 2.2.18pre. SOme people > see it so

Re: PROBLEM: crashing kernels

2000-11-25 Thread Alan Cox
> benn compiled into the kernel, and not as a module) always gave the > errors: > > eth0: Transmit timed out: status 0050 0090 at 134704418/134704432 > eth0: Trying to restart the transmitter... Known problem. This one might be fixed in current 2.2.18pre. SOme people see it some dont > mistak

PROBLEM: crashing kernels

2000-11-25 Thread Mr. Big
[1.] Kernels 2.2.14, 2.2.17, 2.4.0-test11 crash with various errors (I know this is too simple, but this is what I could say in one line) [2.] We're running a quite bussy site, and updateing our servers hardware quite often. Since a while ago we're expecting many troubles, that usually end with