Re: 2.4.x very unstable on 8-way IBM 8500R

2001-03-02 Thread Matilainen Panu
On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, ext Alan Cox wrote: > > > (from Red Hat 7) but very erratic on all 2.4-kernels I've tried it with > > > (2.4.[012], compiled both with egcs and RH7's gcc-2.96, both share the > > > > Under redhat 7 you should use kgcc to compile the kern

Re: 2.4.x very unstable on 8-way IBM 8500R

2001-03-01 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Dr. Kelsey Hudson wrote: >> I've been playing around with 8-way IBM8500R (8x700MHz Xeon) with 4.5GB >> memory & AIC7xxx SCSI-controller. It's perfectly stable with 2.2-kernel >> (from Red Hat 7) but very erratic on all 2.4-kernels I've tried it with >> (2.4.[012], compiled bot

Re: 2.4.x very unstable on 8-way IBM 8500R

2001-03-01 Thread Tim Wright
On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 05:04:09PM -0800, Dr. Kelsey Hudson wrote: > On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Matilainen Panu (NRC/Helsinki) wrote: > > > I've been playing around with 8-way IBM8500R (8x700MHz Xeon) with 4.5GB > > memory & AIC7xxx SCSI-controller. It's perfectly stable with 2.2-kernel > > (from Red Ha

Re: 2.4.x very unstable on 8-way IBM 8500R

2001-03-01 Thread Tim Wright
Just FYI, I am chasing this problem. There appears to be an unpleasant interaction between the Advanced Systems Management card and the NMI watchdog code. Ripping the card out of the machine also eradicates the problem, but is less desirable. I'll let people know when there's a better solution.

Re: 2.4.x very unstable on 8-way IBM 8500R

2001-03-01 Thread J Sloan
"Dr. Kelsey Hudson" wrote: > Under redhat 7 you should use kgcc to compile the kernel, since gcc2.96 is > inherently broken(*). Or upgrade to the current Red Hat 7 gcc, which works quite well. jjs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a messag

Re: 2.4.x very unstable on 8-way IBM 8500R

2001-03-01 Thread Alan Cox
> > (from Red Hat 7) but very erratic on all 2.4-kernels I've tried it with > > (2.4.[012], compiled both with egcs and RH7's gcc-2.96, both share the > Under redhat 7 you should use kgcc to compile the kernel, since gcc2.96 is So he was using egcs, and wh

Re: 2.4.x very unstable on 8-way IBM 8500R

2001-03-01 Thread Dr. Kelsey Hudson
On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Matilainen Panu (NRC/Helsinki) wrote: > I've been playing around with 8-way IBM8500R (8x700MHz Xeon) with 4.5GB > memory & AIC7xxx SCSI-controller. It's perfectly stable with 2.2-kernel > (from Red Hat 7) but very erratic on all 2.4-kernels I've tried it with > (2.4.[012], com

Re: 2.4.x very unstable on 8-way IBM 8500R

2001-03-01 Thread Matilainen Panu (NRC/Helsinki)
On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, ext Andrew Morton wrote: > "Matilainen Panu (NRC/Helsinki)" wrote: > > On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, ext Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > > > Is it stable with `nmi_watchdog=0'? > > > > If the default value for nmi_watchdog is 0 then no - I added the > > nmi_watchdog=1 just to see if that ma