5.1-R-p2 crashes on SMP with AMI RAID and Intel 1000/Pro

[Hartmann, O.]

On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Steven Hartland wrote:

Well, at the moment I suspect even more the operating system than low
power, but I really have no glue what a low power supply could cause.

I tried to shutdown the system just e few minutes ago and it hangs with this error message:

cpu_reset: Stopping other CPUs
panic: spin lock sched lock held by 0xc3b10ab0 for > 5 seconds
cpuid = 0; lapic.id = 01000000

That's the OS ... not spontanous reboot caused by low power, or do I err?

:>
:>----- Original Message -----
:>From: "Hartmann, O." <ohartman at klima.physik.uni-mainz.de>
:>
:>> :>300 Is very low for that spec machine 400 would be prudent. I had issues with
:>> :>a dual PIII 800 when running with a 300 watt PSU upgrading to a 350 solved the
:>> :>issue and was exactly the same as your describing.
:>> :>
:>>
:>> Well, maybe you are right. It sounds like weird, but I ordered today a set of 400W
:>> PSUs. I will see, what happens. And, looking on what is in the machine, now I feel
:>> some kind of bad when being aware that the main server has the most consumption
:>> (64Bit NIC/RAID, 9 36GB HDs ...).
:>>
:>> Hope, this wil flatten things :-)
:>
:>Hope it does fix your issue. However with 9 SCSI HD's I would even consider
:>a 500 Watt PSU. With the amount of money spent on the machine it would be
:>a shame to have issues for the sake of a few more $'s on the PSU.
:>
:>    Steve
:>
:>

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