Re: SMP trouble

[Zwane Mwaikambo]

On Mon, 16 Jan 2006, Gilles May wrote:

> I got a wierd problem with my dual Athlon box.
> The board is a K7D Master-L with 2 Athlon-MP 2800+ processors.
> Running it with SMP enabled in the kernel makes it freeze on heavy activity. I
> can always reproduce a freeze
> by watching a movie while copying files to/from USB disk, or on ping -f to a
> box on my LAN. Without SMP
> support in the kernel I can do this for hours and no freeze.
> The kernels I tried are ranging from 2.6.11-1.1369 (FC4) to 2.6.15 vanilla
> kernel. Running from console
> with no X nor any proprietary modules loaded.

Try booting the SMP kernel with 'noapic' kernel parameter and then send 
the kernel bootlog.
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