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i've been tracking similar issues with the new 1.4 boot CDs |
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see gentoo bugzilla bug 11095 (and vote for it!!!) |
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short version: |
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i've gotten it to work properly with the vanilla-sources |
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and xfs-sources - but something in the gentoo-sources |
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causes my machine to lock hard (regardless of hyperthreading) |
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My boxes are Dell PE2650 with dual 2.4G xeon 2Gig Ram & aacraid (xfs on top) |
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(hyperthreading can be turned on/off in the bios) |
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Hope this helps, |
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odiT |
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-----Original Message----- |
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From: Riyad Kalla [mailto:rsk@×××××××××.edu] |
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Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 10:50 PM |
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To: 'Denis Shcherbakov'; gentoo-dev@g.o |
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Subject: RE: [gentoo-dev] SMP kernel halts system - hyperthreading?? |
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Denis, |
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That sounds like the server at work I'm using, nice machine.. |
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Anywya, there was a thread on something like this in the forums, and it |
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basically turned out to be the SMP Gentoo kernel, the guy went to |
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vanilla kernel and everything worked just dandy. Can you verify this? |
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Maybe the kernel team needs to focus on something? |
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Can you run 4 threads of Seti@Home to see if it kills the machine? That |
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should be a good test as it will saturate your CPUs |
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Best, |
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-Riyad |
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-----Original Message----- |
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From: Denis Shcherbakov [mailto:deniss@×××××××××.EDU] |
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Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 8:47 PM |
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To: gentoo-dev@g.o |
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Subject: [gentoo-dev] SMP kernel halts system - hyperthreading?? |
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Dear gentoo-dev, |
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If some of you recall, I wrote to the list about a system halt resulting |
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from running C++ codes and it possibly having to do with nVidia graphics |
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or XFree 4.2.1. |
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Well, the problem persists in text mode also. It happens when 3 or more |
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CPU-intensive processes run simultaneously on the machine. I have an |
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SMP |
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kernel (2.4.19-gentoo-r7) with 2 Intel Xeon 2.2-GHz processors equipped |
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with hyperthreading technology. |
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I have 4 processors initialized at boot time, and 4 processors show up |
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in |
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"top". This is probably because of hyperthreading, as otherwise there |
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should be only two. |
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How do I turn off hyperthreading? Do you think hyperthreading is what's |
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breaking my system and it could be more stable without hyperthreading? |
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Can a certain process be confined only to a certain processor? |
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Thanks for any help! |
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Denis |
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