Gentoo Archives: gentoo-sparc

From: Paul Heinlein <heinlein@××××××.com>
To: gentoo-sparc@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-sparc] Software Compilation
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 14:54:05
Message-Id: 42E79FE8.8020709@madboa.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-sparc] Software Compilation by Philip Leonard
1 On 7/27/05 7:36 AM, Philip Leonard wrote:
2
3 > I'm certainly jealous. My E4500 will only run a couple of days before
4 > it hangs requiring a reboot. Sometimes it will still respond to pings
5 > but that's all. Never any console messages, just a hung box. On my
6 > uniprocessor sparc's (U5 and U30) is is very stable but not on the E4500
7 > with 8 CPU's. It is running Gentoo with a 2.4 kernel (2.4.31 at the
8 > moment).
9
10 I've got a UP box (Blade 100), so I can't speak for SMP. Bummer about
11 your E4500. Noise and power consumption aside, I'd love to have one. :-)
12
13 I had the same "hangs without a trace" issue when I tried the 2.6
14 kernels. Sometimes the box would run for a couple weeks, sometimes just
15 a day or two. The end result, however, was always a mysterious hang.
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18 Paul Heinlein <> heinlein@××××××.com <> www.madboa.com
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