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Vesna Petrovic, mused, then expounded: |
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> Hello, |
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> I've just installed Gentoo on a dual-processor machine and now I'm running |
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> into the following problem - when I start emerge, it randomly stops and one |
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> of the following things happens: |
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> - the machine freezes completely so that I cannot switch to another |
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> console or do anything |
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> - if I already have multiple ssh sessions open, sometimes one of the |
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> sessions remains alive, but invoking any command freezes that session. Any |
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> attempt to kill a process has no effect. |
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> - soft lockup detected on at least one cpu. |
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> |
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First try swapping around the memory modules. If the system |
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exhibits the exact same pattern, then swap the cpus. |
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My guess is one of the low memory modules - below or at 1 GB, is flakey |
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or that the memory controller on one of the cpus, probably cpu 0, has |
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an issue. |
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Another thing to try is if you're running with 4-DIMMs per cpu, downgrade |
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to 2 DIMMS per cpu. |
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Bob |
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See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html |
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