From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263598AbTLSUWY (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Dec 2003 15:22:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263600AbTLSUWY (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Dec 2003 15:22:24 -0500 Received: from legolas.restena.lu ([158.64.1.34]:48287 "EHLO smtp.restena.lu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263598AbTLSUWW (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Dec 2003 15:22:22 -0500 Subject: Re: [2.4] Nforce2 oops and occasional hang (tried the lockups patch, no difference) From: Craig Bradney To: Disconnect Cc: lkml In-Reply-To: <1071854664.6110.21.camel@slappy> References: <200312131225.34937.ross@datscreative.com.au> <1071506410.2030.35.camel@slappy> <1071773523.1282.6.camel@slappy> <1071854664.6110.21.camel@slappy> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1071865339.9969.3.camel@athlonxp.bradney.info> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 21:22:19 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2003-12-19 at 18:24, Disconnect wrote: > On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 13:52, Disconnect wrote: > > memory/cpu timings. (Even underclocked it to 133 and 1G with no > > change.) So its unfortunately back on a stock 2.4.23-pre9 with > > noapic/noacpi. (It disables one of the sets of usb ports, as I recall, > > but it mostly works...) > > Update: Underclocked from 1.8G to 1.2G (whups, meant to go down only > 2-300mhz) and its been vaguely stable for about 1.5 days. I don't have > another week (yet..) to run it under its normal load and wait for a > crash, so what I'm going to do is: > - Move the workload (web/mail/..) to a different machine so this one > can be down for an extended period > - Replace the ram with new sticks (they arrived this morning) > - Reclock everything to stock (1.83G cpu, 200mhz ram and verify the > timings from kingston) > - Replace the video card > - Memtest86 until it cries > - If it passes, bonnie++ on the new drives > - If that passes, usb/acpi/apic testing with the associated patches > > Anyone still watching this? Tips and suggestions on what else might be > useful/informative are more than welcome. The tests above mostly > replicate what I did when building this box, and it passed them then.. > > Recap: > Epox 8rda+ nforce2 mobo > AMD Athlon XP 2500+ (Barton) 1.83G > Kingston HyperX PC3200 > WD Caviar WD1200JB 8M/UDMA100 > Antec case w/ 350W AMD-certified PSU > > Oopses and occasional hangs, usually in do_generic_file_read, using > stock kernel.org 2.4.2x kernels. Hardware passed testing (memtest86, > bonnie++) before I put Linux on it. Does this not relate directly to the APIC/IOAPIC issues with 2.6 kernel and nforce chipset motherboards? Craig