5.2.1 SMP problems

[Albert Shih]

 Le 04/06/2004 à 11:47:14+0200, Dave Raven a écrit
> Hi all,
>    Installed 5.2.1 on a high load server - albeit not recommended - and 
> it was working perfectly with SMP support. It picked up 4 cpu's and 
> appeared to be using them all. (The box is a dual 2.4gig Xeon machine). 
> Anyway, the box was as I said under quite a bit of load, and would die 
> about once a day - just reboot. I looked into it a bit and found 
> whenever I put more load on (e.g. a make install in ports) it would 
> panic - vm_load_page or something like that - sorry about being so 
> vague. Anyway I took out SMP support, and now it boots with 2 cpu's - 
> one normal Xeon + HT for the second (no idea how to disable that - but I 
> don't need to)... its been running perfect for 4 days now and I put it 
> under SERIOUS load.. has anyone else had SMP problems on 5.2.1? I 
> couldn't find anything about it at first glimpse...
> 

Have you shure this problem is with FreeBSD ?

First check your memory with some software like memtest86 (http://www.memtest86.com/)

When I've this kind of problem, always it's because some error in RAM.

Regards



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Albert SHIH
Universite de Paris 7 (Denis DIDEROT)
U.F.R. de Mathematiques.
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