From: "Martin J. Bligh" <Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com>
To: jeff@AmeriCom.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux SMP kernel bug with > 512M ram
Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 10:06:27 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55628028.1031306786@[10.10.2.3]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020906165516.17282.qmail@solo.americom.com>
Works fine for me with up to 32Gb of RAM. Can you try a vaguely
current kernel?
Martin.
--On Friday, September 06, 2002 4:55 PM +0000 jeff@AmeriCom.com wrote:
>
> I've been having problems with a few of our servers and I can't seem to find this
> problem mentioned anywhere else. All of the dual processor machines will not operate
> with greater than 512 megs of ram with the newer SMP kernels (2.4.7-10enterprise #1
> SMP). Two of the dual P3 1ghz machines crash after a few minutes, when the memory
> usage gets high enough, I presume. The errors they spit out vary, but its only when
> I go over 512megs of ram, and only on dual processor machines. I had a slightly
> different problem when I tried to set it up on a dual p2 266 machine, when I go over
> 512 megs there, the system takes an hour to boot up, and everything crawls from
> there. I asked a friend of mine to try this newer kernel with his dual processor
> server, and he says the same thing (when I go over 512, it crashes). Has anybody had
> this problem? Is there a fix?
>
> Regards,
>
> Jeffrey Moss
> jeff@americom.com
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-06 17:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-06 16:55 jeff
2002-09-06 17:06 ` Martin J. Bligh [this message]
2002-09-06 17:07 ` Alan Cox
2002-09-06 20:50 ` jeff
2002-09-06 20:47 ` David S. Miller
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2002-09-06 21:49 ` jeff
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