Re: 5.3R crashing repeateadly

From: Cristóvão Dalla Costa (cbraga_at_desnormal.com.br)
Date: 12/09/04

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To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>

    Hello, this is just to report back that disabling hyper-threading in the
    BIOS made the problem go away completely. I'm sorry I didn't generate a
    core dump but because I installed four swap partitions each with half
    the size of the RAM and the handbook says I needed one swap partition
    with at least the same size, and I don't have the time to fiddle with
    partitions now.

    Thanks for the help,

    Cristóvão

    Mike Tancsa wrote:

    > At 08:15 PM 08/12/2004, Cristóvão Dalla Costa wrote:
    >
    >> I've disabled SMP with the kern.smp.disabled=1 sysctl and I'll see
    >> what happens next. Strangely though the kernel seems to think the
    >> system has only one cpu despite it being hyperthreaded:
    >
    >
    > You want to turn HT off in the BIOS. The scheduler will not make use
    > of it, and in fact will most likely hurt performance.
    >
    > ---Mike
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