From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 14 Aug 2001 18:22:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 14 Aug 2001 18:22:46 -0400 Received: from web14509.mail.yahoo.com ([216.136.224.168]:21769 "HELO web14509.mail.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Tue, 14 Aug 2001 18:22:38 -0400 Message-ID: <20010814222235.95626.qmail@web14509.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 15:22:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Kent Hunt Subject: Thanks!! SMP+emu10k1+2.4.9-pre1 == no lockups after 2 years To: lk MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org After almost 2 years using 2.4 kernels since the test ones I finally can say that my SMP box is rock solid. I was experiencing hard lockups without any oops in some sporadic but very particular situations: creation and destruction of gtk+ objects. I thought that the problem was either X or G400 video card. It turned out that it was the emu10k1 driver which I decided to unload after reading a recent post of Eric S. Raymond using Tyan K7 Thunder dual-Athlon. After unloading the driver I was not able to crash my box anymore. So it was not the gtk+ the problem but was the little sound events generated during the creation and destruction of objects. The new driver in 2.4.9-pre1 is solid for me. I hope that you keep this one and thanks for fixing it! My SMP mobo is ASUS P2BD with PIII's. Kent __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/