From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8358 invoked from network); 13 May 2004 11:06:16 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (128.193.0.39) by eagle.gentoo.oregonstate.edu with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP; 13 May 2004 11:06:16 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([128.193.0.34] helo=eagle.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1BOE2a-0002vQ-48 for arch-gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 13 May 2004 11:06:16 +0000 Received: (qmail 17104 invoked by uid 50004); 13 May 2004 11:06:15 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 7655 invoked from network); 13 May 2004 11:06:14 +0000 From: Kevin To: Gentoo Dev Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 07:06:12 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.94 References: <793F9D20-A427-11D8-AC04-0003939E069A@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <793F9D20-A427-11D8-AC04-0003939E069A@mac.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200405130706.12534.gentoo-dev@gnosys.biz> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Major MCE problem with SMP on Gentoo kernels X-Archives-Salt: d2fc1db8-e2ad-4621-b505-920a0ae8a04e X-Archives-Hash: b631933b81223f27c38add94577f79df On Wednesday 12 May 2004 11:17, tom_gall@mac.com wrote: > Greetings, > > Just to give this another perspective. > [...] Thanks for your reply, Tom. At least I know it should be doable. To all who've commented on this thread, thanks again. I've now tried a stage 3 installation booting the 2.6.1 SMP kernel from a 2004.0 LiveCD (the SMP configs on 2004.1 LiveCDs are all broken---see bug #49382). I had no lockup problems while running that kernel, but after rebooting with my kernel (gentoo-sources, built with Chris's CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer") I've already suffered two lockups. I set MAKEOPS="-j1" for safety. Something very weird here. Next, I'm going to try booting from the cd and chrooting into my system and then doing more extensive testing of the kernel on the cd, but I'm really running out of options here. I'll probably also try building another kernel with CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O2 -pipe". Any other suggestions? Does anyone think that my two CPUs having different stepping levels could have anything to do with this problem? One is level 7 and the other 9. Greg KH thinks it's bad memory, but I'm skeptical of that because the main address that fails (some 30 times in a row) is at 1023.8MB and the Dell Utilities only test up to 1022MB, and because I haven't seen the problem with the liveCD kernel. -- -Kevin -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list