Re: The never ending BEEEEP/__smp_call_function_mask with 2.6.25-rc7

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Mon Mar 31 2008 - 03:10:51 EST


Chr <chunkeey@xxxxxx> writes:

> Ever since I went to the new 2.6.25-rcX, I encountered lots of random
> system freezes after about 2 or 3 hours of uptime... but until now,
> I couldn't _catch_ them, since the system
> (AMD Athlon 4200+ X2 (Manchester) / nforce 4 SLI / x86_64) went
> straight into oblivion (nothing on the serial console or anywhere else,
> heck I couldn't even hit reset, It didn't POST anymore)

Not POSTing would point to some kind of hardware problem. Normally
the kernel shouldn't be able to cause that.

I would recommend you double check if the problem is really not
there with an older kernel by going back there and testing.

-Andi
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