Re: APIC error on CPUx

[Vladimir Dvorak]

Andi Kleen wrote:

>Vladimir Dvorak <dvorakv@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
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>>Linux requisities:
>>Debian 3.1
>>Linux mailserver 2.6.8-3-686-smp #1 SMP Thu Feb 9 07:05:39 UTC 2006 i686
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>That's an ancient kernel.
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Yes, I agree.

 ... but the latest in Debian/Sarge. :-)

Do you, Andi,  thing that upgrade to latest vanilla one ( from
kernel.org ) should solve this problem ?

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>>GNU/Linux
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>>Hardware:
>>Intel SR1200
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>If it's an <=P3 class machine: most likely you have noise on the APIC bus.
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>-Andi
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Yes, you are right :

cat /proc/cpuinfo
...
model name      : Intel(R) Pentium(R) III CPU family      1133MHz
...


"Noise on APIC bus" means - " a lot of interrupts from devices" ?

Thank you Andi!

Vladimir

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