From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 28 Jun 2001 09:35:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 28 Jun 2001 09:35:04 -0400 Received: from router-100M.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.17]:30220 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 28 Jun 2001 09:34:48 -0400 Subject: Re: SMP-Board, only 1 CPU, strange Crashes To: puckwork@madz.net (Thomas Foerster) Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 14:34:37 +0100 (BST) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20010628132231Z265729-17720+8653@vger.kernel.org> from "Thomas Foerster" at Jun 28, 2001 03:19:24 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Now the system runs fine for about 1 Week. After than, it oftens "crashes". > "crashes" is not realy the thing ... diffrent things happen : Unfortunately you dont give enough information to even take a wild guess > The system is running on 2.4.4-ac18 Do try ac13 as well, there are some glitches in ac14+ with the new mm (ditto in 2.4.6pre) that might cause hangs > Whats happending to this box? I've never had such problems. Is it because of the > Dual-Board and the non-smp kernel? (i need to know this, because we can't tolerate any more > downtime right now) Dual board with a non SMP kernel is fine. Make sure you have it set up correctly (terminators in place of 2nd cpu if required etc) but I dont think its that. It could equally be bad ram, bad cpu etc.. run ac13 for a bit first see what occurs, then maybe memtest86 it