Re: [gentoo-dev] Major MCE problem with SMP on Gentoo kernels

[Kevin]

On Tuesday 11 May 2004 14:46, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 02:07:58PM -0400, Kevin wrote:
> > In summary, my problem is this: of those that I've tried, I can't
> > get any Gentoo kernel to handle SMP operation during major CPU
> > activity (like emerging packages) for more than about 5 or 10
> > minutes.  Invariably, during such activity, I get a kernel
> > panic---most often with words on the console about Machine Check
> > Exception 000000...004 (this number from memory so it may be off).
>
> This means you have bad hardware (memory, cpu, overheating, etc.)
> It's the hardware saying that something bad just happened, nothing
> the OS or distro did wrong here.

Thanks for your reply, Greg.  Although what you say here may be true in 
some circumstances, I think you're wrong in this case.  You may have 
stopped reading after the above paragraph, but in the rest of my post, 
I describe how a SuSE9 distro installed on this same hardware has no 
problems doing all of the things that failed in Gentoo.  That's a 
pretty strong indication that there are no hardware problems, isn't it?

-Kevin

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