Re: lockups with 2.4.2x

[Christian]

Willy Tarreau wrote:
> Hmmm, there is a lot of hardware in this box. Have you tried disabling IDE ?
> ServeRaid ? SymBIOS ?

hm, yes, i could disable the ServeRaid module. gotta find out how to 
disable the builtin IDE / Symbios other than recompile the kernel...

can i do this by giving "ide0=noprobe ide1=noprobe ..." on the 
boot-prompt? my rootdisk used to be on hda, will see if i can do something.

> Also, the DMESG shows that you have an AMD bug on your CPUs, and tells you
> that if you have problems, you should restart with 'noapic'. Did you try it ?

Oh, no, I did not. sorry. i'll try it.

> You could also try to boot in 'nosmp' mode, and even with network unplugged.

hm, will try this too.

> I believe it will be relatively quick to find the problem if the system
> usually hangs in no more than 3 minutes.

the worst thing on this machine is the pre-booting process, where all 
the controllers are "Initializing..."  and "Checking...", and even the 
ServRaid controller wants to have 3 minutes sometimes to settle :-)

> You may also have a defect in your RAM.

even it is "ECC" RAM, i'll give it a try.

Thank your for the quick reply, i'll try these things out, will take 
some time, so maybe i'm back in the evening.

Christian.
(if I only could use my .sig this time :-))
--
BOFH excuse #301:

appears to be a Slow/Narrow SCSI-0 Interface problem


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