Re: number of CPUs and IPI panic

From: Nik Azim Azam (nskyline_r35_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 10/21/04

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    Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 15:16:59 -0700 (PDT)
    To: Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk>
    
    

    sorry for not posting this information earlier.

    i'm running on SCHED_4BSD, with PREEMPTION. the same
    panic occours without PREEMPTION. the kernel is
    generic except that i've removed some devices that i
    dont need.

    --- Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk>
    wrote:

    > On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, Nik Azim Azam wrote:
    >
    > > hello list,
    > >
    > > i'm doing some testing on a 6 cpu pentium II
    > overdrive
    > > computer with 6-CURRENT. with 6 cpus, the system
    > will
    > > panic easily with moderate load (previous IPI is
    > > stuck). i edited sys/i386/sys/param.h file and
    > lowered
    > > the MAXCPU to 4. now the system is running with 4
    > cpus
    > > and it survived a make buildworld + portupgrade at
    > the
    > > same time.
    > >
    > > is this a known problem? i can give more
    > information
    > > if anyone interested.
    >
    > Are you using SCHED_ULE? (I believe it's the default
    > in 6-CURRENT...)
    >
    > If so, try with SCHED_4BSD. ULE has known problems
    > at the moment.
    >
    > Gavin
    >

                    
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