tyan K7 thunder

tyan K7 thunder

[Andreas Gietl]

hi,

First every thing was just fine with our new tyan k7 thunder server and we 
did some load testing and the machine ran fine for 4 weeks. But after we 
started to use it in production we had major stability problems with that new 
Dual Athlon 1200 machine. we found tons of mails in this mailling list about 
this configuration crashing. We tried to stabilize the SMP-kernel (v.2.4.9) 
for 4 days w/o luck. We played around with the bios and especially the use 
pci table in MP table switch gave us a lot more stability but the machine 
still keeped on crashing every few hours with a kernel panic:

kernel panic aiee, killing interrupt handler
in interrupt handler - not syncing'

We tried noapic, and all the things that were recommended. We also read that 
Alan Cox thinks that some of these MBs simply are kind of damaged.

Right now we are running this machine with v2.4.12 uniprocessor kernel and it 
seems to be stable. What i wanna know is whether there are some improvements 
in the support for this mainboard in the kernel from 2.4.9 to 2.4.12 so we 
could risk another try with the SMP kernel.

thank you for you help

andreas

P.S.: The tyan support (after 5 days we were frustrated enough to call them 
up) said the don't support Linux, and their boards are just certified for 
Windows. But of course this is not alternative for us....
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Re: tyan K7 thunder

[Magnus Naeslund(f)]

Well I can't even get it to boot some dists/kernels.

When I tried to install Peanut Linux (http://www.ibiblio.org/peanut/) it
just hangs after "Freeing unused kernel memory ( XXX K )".

It's bootdisk has a 2.4.10 kernel, and I wonder if there is any gotchas with
this version of kernel together with the AMD Athlon MP, AMD 760MP, AMD 762,
AMD 766, or tyan s2462 chips and board that produces this hang.

Magnus

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andreas Gietl" <a.gietl@e-admin.de>
To: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2001 3:39 PM
Subject: tyan K7 thunder


> hi,
>
> First every thing was just fine with our new tyan k7 thunder server and we
> did some load testing and the machine ran fine for 4 weeks. But after we
> started to use it in production we had major stability problems with that
new
> Dual Athlon 1200 machine. we found tons of mails in this mailling list
about
> this configuration crashing. We tried to stabilize the SMP-kernel
(v.2.4.9)
> for 4 days w/o luck. We played around with the bios and especially the use
> pci table in MP table switch gave us a lot more stability but the machine
> still keeped on crashing every few hours with a kernel panic:
>
> kernel panic aiee, killing interrupt handler
> in interrupt handler - not syncing'
>
> We tried noapic, and all the things that were recommended. We also read
that
> Alan Cox thinks that some of these MBs simply are kind of damaged.
>
> Right now we are running this machine with v2.4.12 uniprocessor kernel and
it
> seems to be stable. What i wanna know is whether there are some
improvements
> in the support for this mainboard in the kernel from 2.4.9 to 2.4.12 so we
> could risk another try with the SMP kernel.
>
> thank you for you help
>
> andreas
>
> P.S.: The tyan support (after 5 days we were frustrated enough to call
them
> up) said the don't support Linux, and their boards are just certified for
> Windows. But of course this is not alternative for us....
> --
> e-admin internet gmbh
> Andreas Gietl
> Roter-Brach-Weg 124a
> tel +49 941 3810884
> fax +49 941 3810891
> mobil +49 171 6070008
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Re: tyan K7 thunder

[Gerhard Mack]

Theres a problem unrelated to the hardware.  I've been having the same
problem with a server here.

	Gerhard


On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, Magnus Naeslund(f) wrote:

> 
> Well I can't even get it to boot some dists/kernels.
> 
> When I tried to install Peanut Linux (http://www.ibiblio.org/peanut/) it
> just hangs after "Freeing unused kernel memory ( XXX K )".
> 
> It's bootdisk has a 2.4.10 kernel, and I wonder if there is any gotchas with
> this version of kernel together with the AMD Athlon MP, AMD 760MP, AMD 762,
> AMD 766, or tyan s2462 chips and board that produces this hang.
> 
> Magnus
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andreas Gietl" <a.gietl@e-admin.de>
> To: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2001 3:39 PM
> Subject: tyan K7 thunder
> 
> 
> > hi,
> >
> > First every thing was just fine with our new tyan k7 thunder server and we
> > did some load testing and the machine ran fine for 4 weeks. But after we
> > started to use it in production we had major stability problems with that
> new
> > Dual Athlon 1200 machine. we found tons of mails in this mailling list
> about
> > this configuration crashing. We tried to stabilize the SMP-kernel
> (v.2.4.9)
> > for 4 days w/o luck. We played around with the bios and especially the use
> > pci table in MP table switch gave us a lot more stability but the machine
> > still keeped on crashing every few hours with a kernel panic:
> >
> > kernel panic aiee, killing interrupt handler
> > in interrupt handler - not syncing'
> >
> > We tried noapic, and all the things that were recommended. We also read
> that
> > Alan Cox thinks that some of these MBs simply are kind of damaged.
> >
> > Right now we are running this machine with v2.4.12 uniprocessor kernel and
> it
> > seems to be stable. What i wanna know is whether there are some
> improvements
> > in the support for this mainboard in the kernel from 2.4.9 to 2.4.12 so we
> > could risk another try with the SMP kernel.
> >
> > thank you for you help
> >
> > andreas
> >
> > P.S.: The tyan support (after 5 days we were frustrated enough to call
> them
> > up) said the don't support Linux, and their boards are just certified for
> > Windows. But of course this is not alternative for us....
> > --
> > e-admin internet gmbh
> > Andreas Gietl
> > Roter-Brach-Weg 124a
> > tel +49 941 3810884
> > fax +49 941 3810891
> > mobil +49 171 6070008
> > -
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> 
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