Re: 4.9 Stable Crashes on SuperMicro with SMP

From: Jonathan Gilpin (jonathan_at_fluent.ltd.uk)
Date: 11/27/03

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    To: "David Malone" <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 15:15:49 -0000

    Thanks. Another poster has sent me a memory testing program which I will try
    tonight in the early hours. With 1 CPU enabled the box is completely stable.
    There are no memory errors of any kind and all is fine.

    Tonight I will enable the second CPU again and see if I can find out more
    infomation... Could it be that a memory fault only occurr when the second
    CPU is enabled (ie: when Option SMP and option APIC_IO is enabled in the
    kernel)?

    Jonathan

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "David Malone" <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
    To: "Jonathan Gilpin" <jonathan@fluent.ltd.uk>
    Cc: <freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org>; <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
    Sent: Thursday, November 27, 2003 2:09 PM
    Subject: Re: 4.9 Stable Crashes on SuperMicro with SMP

    > On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 10:35:49PM -0000, Jonathan Gilpin wrote:
    > > Further Crashes as reported before:
    >
    > Both of these crashes could potentially be caused by hardware or
    > memory problems. While it is possible it's a bug of some sort, I'd
    > start by checking out my hardware, if I were you...
    >
    > David.
    >

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