Re: [BUG] Strange problems in 2.3.x with SMP Sparc

From: Augusto Cesar Radtke (radtke@zaz.com.br)
Date: Thu Mar 23 2000 - 20:05:01 EST


On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Sean Hunter wrote:

> My 4-way sparc, which works great with 2.2.14, doesn't like 2.3.x at
> all. There seems random corruption in memory (ie shell logins just
> die within seconds, and other really wierd stuff happens). I have
> tried 2.3.51, and 2.3.99-pre3, and they seem about the same level of
> brokenness.
>
> 2.3.51 worked great on it as a UP kernel before I got my 4 HyperSparc
> processors 8^) , so I'm very keen to get the 2.3 series working on it
> as SMP.
>
> Let me know how I can debug this further and I'll try to help.

Sean,

try to use SGI's kdb to analise the internal data structures, you can
download it at http://oss.sgi.com.

-augusto

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