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From: Denis Shcherbakov <deniss@Princeton.EDU>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-dev] SMP kernel halts system - hyperthreading??
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 22:47:03 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0212182220420.5775-100000@yuma.Princeton.EDU> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200212171641.27602.werner.van.belle@vub.ac.be>


Dear gentoo-dev,

If some of you recall, I wrote to the list about a system halt resulting
from running C++ codes and it possibly having to do with nVidia graphics
or XFree 4.2.1.

Well, the problem persists in text mode also.  It happens when 3 or more
CPU-intensive processes run simultaneously on the machine.  I have an SMP
kernel (2.4.19-gentoo-r7) with 2 Intel Xeon 2.2-GHz processors equipped
with hyperthreading technology.

I have 4 processors initialized at boot time, and 4 processors show up in
"top".  This is probably because of hyperthreading, as otherwise there
should be only two.

How do I turn off hyperthreading?  Do you think hyperthreading is what's
breaking my system and it could be more stable without hyperthreading?
Can a certain process be confined only to a certain processor?

Thanks for any help!
Denis


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  reply	other threads:[~2002-12-19  3:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-12-17 15:35 [gentoo-dev] Serious: XFree halts system with some C++ codes running (in particular, Diffpack) on SMP kernel 2.4.19-gentoo-r7 Denis Shcherbakov
2002-12-17 15:41 ` [gentoo-dev] " Werner Van Belle
2002-12-19  3:47   ` Denis Shcherbakov [this message]
2002-12-19  3:50     ` [gentoo-dev] SMP kernel halts system - hyperthreading?? Riyad Kalla
2002-12-21 19:14       ` Marko Mikulicic
2002-12-17 19:06 ` [gentoo-dev] Serious: XFree halts system with some C++ codes running (in particular, Diffpack) on SMP kernel 2.4.19-gentoo-r7 Simon Keimer
2002-12-18  0:22   ` Denis Shcherbakov
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-12-20 23:36 [gentoo-dev] SMP kernel halts system - hyperthreading?? Ciaravino, Tido
2002-12-20 23:53 ` Denis Shcherbakov
2002-12-21  0:02 ` ben
2002-12-21  2:06 Ciaravino, Tido
2002-12-21  4:33 ` oford

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