Re: Most stable smp kernel?
Dan Hollis (goemon@sasami.anime.net)
Fri, 4 Sep 1998 16:38:02 -0700 (PDT)
On Fri, 4 Sep 1998, Nicholas J. Leon wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Sep 1998, Dan Hollis wrote:
> # A friend of mine is trying to run Linux on a 4xPPro SMP machine, with an
> # on-board Adaptec 7880 controller. But it seems really unstable with
> # 2.0.36pre7 and 2.1.119.
> # Whats the most stable smp kernel at the moment?
> I can only speak from my personal experience, but I found the 2.1.115 that
> (used to be) available from the VGER cvs tree to be VERY stable with my
> P6DBE + 2xPII-233. In fact, it hasn't crashed or hiccuped or anything
> since I installed it about, what, 3-4 weeks ago?
Turned out to be a problem with the BIOS mis-configuring the APIC to route
IRQs to multiple CPUs. :-/
Appears to be all happy now.
-Dan
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