[H-GEN] SMP -- Linux

Paul Gearon pag at tams.com.au
Wed Apr 14 21:14:18 EDT 1999


(Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs Paul Gearon <pag at tams.com.au>)

> On Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 09:32:46AM +1000, Craig Armour wrote:
> > is anyone else having serious problems with stability on smp boxes
> > running 2.2.x linux kernels?  as soon as I put anywhere some serious
> > load (ie above 3) on a box here, she dies... kernel oops

<< snip >>

> My first port of call would the scsi adapters. Adaptec's and 
> Buslogic's work
> very nicely in my experience. It's quite possibly the case 
> that the driver
> is a little on the dodgey side. When it falls over, is the 
> disk activity high?
> 
> After that, I'd try the network card. Tulip's have known 
> stability problems
> with smp and linux iirc.

Dont forget to check out the linux-smp mailing list.  There were a couple of
motherboards which have problems with the 2.2.x series of kernels.  Most
have been fixed, but there are a couple still outstanding.  Might be worth
checking out.

Regards,
Paul

Paul Gearon
gearon at computer.org

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