Large machine test ideas

Andriy Gapon avg at FreeBSD.org
Mon Aug 29 15:20:51 UTC 2011


on 29/08/2011 18:18 Ivan Voras said the following:
> On 29 August 2011 17:15, Andriy Gapon <avg at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> on 29/08/2011 17:46 Ivan Voras said the following:
>>> On 26/08/2011 19:44, Garrett Cooper wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Ivan Voras <ivoras at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> ...
>>>>
>>>>> I think that I'll need a 9-CURRENT snapshot on it to run all 128 CPUs,
>>>>> right?
>>>>
>>>> A 9.0-BETA1 snapshot, yes.
>>>
>>> Well, I'll leave it another half an hour but the 9.9-beta1 shapshot
>>> froze on boot after showing a "SRAT: No CPU found for memory domain 4".
>>>
>>> (all this after the traditional "do-nothing" pause of 10-or so minutes
>>> before displaying the copyright banner).
>>
>> Not sure if hw.memtest.tests tunable has made it into 9.0-BETA1.
>> Setting it to zero should result in skipping the checks.
> 
> If it did, to what should I set it?

See one line above your question :-)

>> You may also try to capture and share a verbose dmesg, if possible.
> 
> I'll take some photos of the screen.

No serial console? :(

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Andriy Gapon


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