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From: Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Major MCE problem with SMP on Gentoo kernels
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 19:39:26
Message-Id: 200405112139.16594.pauldv@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Major MCE problem with SMP on Gentoo kernels by Kevin
1 On Tuesday 11 May 2004 20:55, Kevin wrote:
2 > On Tuesday 11 May 2004 14:46, Greg KH wrote:
3 > > On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 02:07:58PM -0400, Kevin wrote:
4 > > > In summary, my problem is this: of those that I've tried, I can't
5 > > > get any Gentoo kernel to handle SMP operation during major CPU
6 > > > activity (like emerging packages) for more than about 5 or 10
7 > > > minutes. Invariably, during such activity, I get a kernel
8 > > > panic---most often with words on the console about Machine Check
9 > > > Exception 000000...004 (this number from memory so it may be off).
10 > >
11 > > This means you have bad hardware (memory, cpu, overheating, etc.)
12 > > It's the hardware saying that something bad just happened, nothing
13 > > the OS or distro did wrong here.
14 >
15 > Thanks for your reply, Greg. Although what you say here may be true in
16 > some circumstances, I think you're wrong in this case. You may have
17 > stopped reading after the above paragraph, but in the rest of my post,
18 > I describe how a SuSE9 distro installed on this same hardware has no
19 > problems doing all of the things that failed in Gentoo. That's a
20 > pretty strong indication that there are no hardware problems, isn't it?
21
22 Do you also have errors when you run a vanilla kernel? What if you take the
23 kernel from SUSE, which compiler do you use?
24
25 Paul
26
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28 Paul de Vrieze
29 Gentoo Developer
30 Mail: pauldv@g.o
31 Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net

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