Hi Wolfgang, On Sun, 23 May 2004 23:36:45 +1000 Wolfgang <wolfgang@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > My first suggestion would be to update your mother board BIOS. > > > There maybe there are some bugs in the APIC code in the BIOS. Or > > > change the APIC level from 1.4 to 1.1. > > > > Mmmh... ok, I will try that -- I do recall seeing this on BIOS > > setup. > > > > > I don't have any APIC problems with my servers, as I run Tyan MPX > > > mother boards, and have not seen APIC problems at all. I've run > > > RH9, FC1 & RHEL3 WS on these boards without any problems. > > > > It should be something specific to my mobo then. Bad luck =( > > > > Thks for the ideas, > > > > Andre > > > > -- > > Andre Oliveira da Costa > > > That may very well be possible, as I had similar problems with MSI > Dual CPU Boards. So I decided to go for Tyan boards, and all the > problems went away. My mobo is ABIT IIRC. I did set ACPI version to 1.1, and tried vanilla 2.4.26 SMP. It did last longer than RH 2188 SMP (the whole weekend, but with near-null load), but today it locked solid right after I logged in and started to use it. Funny thing is that it still worked for a while, but it seems that only while I requested apps that still were in memory. As soon as I demanded data from the HD, the machine hung. Could this be a HD spindown/wake-up problem? I am now trying with HT disabled on BIOS, and with RH 2188 non-SMP kernel. It seems to be working fine, but only time will tell... Any ideas will be much appreciated, I am really disappointed I cannot use SMP with this machine... =/ TIA Andre -- Andre Oliveira da Costa
