The machine I'm using now to write this email is Cyrix 110Mhz (PR133Mhz)
running as a server, with X windows, and Netscape.
1:29am up 11 days, 9:57, 2 users, load average: 0.05, 0.01, 0.00
39 processes: 38 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 0.5% user, 1.1% system, 1.6% nice, 98.4% idle
As you can see, it's running now for 11 days without stopping. I'm using
kernel 2.0.35 (without pre-patches).
My suggestion: check your hardware carefully (IMHO) and specially memory
SIMM/DIMM's...
Hetz
On 21 Aug 1998, Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
> I've been using Cyrix for about a year now, and have always been having
> problem with lockups and 'instant reboots'. I stumbled across some info
> that the upcomming 2.0.36 should have better Cyrix detection and bug
> workaround, but so faar it doesn't work for me.
>
> This is what /proc/cpuinfo tells me:
>
> ----- s n i p -----
> processor : 0
> cpu : 486
> model : 486 DX-25/33
> vendor_id : GenuineIntel
> stepping : unknown
> fdiv_bug : no
> hlt_bug : no
> f00f_bug : no
> fpu : yes
> fpu_exception : yes
> cpuid : no
> wp : yes
> flags :
> bogomips : 119.60
> ----- s n i p -----
>
> And this is what 6x86_reg says:
>
> ----- s n i p -----
> 6x86 (Classic/L/MX) Register Dump utility
>
> 6x86 DIR0: 0x31 2X core/bus clock ratio
> DIR1: 0x16 6x86 Rev. 2.6
>
> Wait a moment...
> Calculated BogoMIPS: 118.77
> Kernel BogoMIPS: 119.60
>
> 6x86 CCR0: 0x2 NC1 set (address region 640Kb-1Mb non-cacheable)
> CCR1: 0x92 NO_LOCK set
> CCR2: 0x88 SUSP_HLT set (low power suspend mode enabled)
> CCR3: 0x10
> CCR4: 0x97 DTE cache enabled, no I/O recovery time
> CCR5: 0x21 slow LOOP disabled, allocate cache lines on write misses
>
> 6x86 Address Region Register dump:
> ARR0: address = 0xA0000 , size = 128 KB
> RCR = 0x1 : not cached
> ARR1: address = 0xC0000 , size = 256 KB
> RCR = 0x1 : not cached
> ARR2: disabled
> ARR3: address = 0xE0000 , size = 32 KB
> RCR = 0x9 : not cached, write gathering
> ARR4: disabled
> ARR5: disabled
> ARR6: address = 0xE0000000 , size = 2 MB
> RCR = 0x9 : not cached, write gathering
> ARR7: address = 0x0 , size = 64 MB
> RCR = 0xB : cached, weak write ordering, write gathering
> ----- s n i p -----
>
> Now, I got a lot of info on the 'http://gwyn.tux.org/~balsa/linux/cyrix/index.html'
> pages, and uses the 'rc.cyrix' at boot (the original one, since I didn't understand
> much about what it does etc).
>
> I still got the general protection, and a couple of minutes later, it freezes,
> and the watchdog reboots the machine.
>
> ----- s n i p -----
> general protection: 0000
> CPU: 0
> EIP: 0010:[<0011cd6b>]
> EFLAGS: 00010206
> eax: 004b6000 ebx: 001f7f44 ecx: 402651d4 edx: 00001dac
> esi: 03624900 edi: 004b6000 ebp: 00267f54 esp: 02262f58
> ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018
> Process emacs (pid: 1935, process nr: 67, stackpage=02262000)
> Stack: 00000000 016f650c 00010000 03624900 00001000 001f7f44 00000000
> 00000000
> 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 004b6000 00006000 00000000
> 001230cc
> 03624900 016f650c 08968538 0000a000 02b29c0c 00010000 08962538
> bffe99bc
> Call Trace: [<001230cc>] [<0010a6c8>]
> Code: 39 71 08 75 f0 39 41 0c 75 eb ff 41 14 0f ba 69 18 02 19 d2
> ----- s n i p -----
>
> Sometimes, when I'm using X and Communicator, al of a sudden, I see the BIOS
> starting to count and check the memmory! That's a fast reboot for ya'... :)
>
> I'd surely would appreciate some assistence here, I'm getting a little to
> many gray hairs about this, to be funny...
>
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