Re: 2.4.23 crash on Intel SDS2

From: Marcelo Tosatti (marcelo.tosatti_at_cyclades.com)
Date: 11/12/03

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    Date:	Wed, 12 Nov 2003 09:21:59 -0200 (BRST)
    To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
    
    

    On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:

    >
    >
    > On Sun, 9 Nov 2003, Shane Wegner wrote:
    >
    > > Hi,
    > >
    > > I posted some weeks ago regarding a crash I was
    > > experiencing with 2.4.23-pre4. I am just writing to
    > > confirm that 2.4.23-pre9 is still unable to run relyably on
    > > this machine. In my earlier post, I thought acpi might be
    > > the culprit as I had it enabled due to a bios bug. Intel
    > > since fixed that so I was able to boot 2.4.23-pre9 with
    > > acpi totally disabled in make config.
    > >
    > > The problem is that after some time, usually between 30
    > > seconds and 15 minutes in, the system locks up. Nothing
    > > gets printed into the kernel logs or onto the console.
    > > After 60 seconds, the IPMI watchdog kicks in and reboots
    > > the system. I run Linux 2.4.22 over here with no problems
    > > with and without acpi.
    > >
    > > It's an Intel server board model SDS2 with a dual Pentium
    > > III tualatin 1.13ghz. I am attaching the dmesg output from
    > > the kernel in case it is helpful but as there is no panics
    > > or oops being printed, I am not sure how best I can help
    > > track this down. If there is anything further I can do or
    > > any other information needed, let me know.
    >
    > > On node 0 totalpages: 262144
    > > zone(0): 4096 pages.
    > > zone(1): 225280 pages.
    > > zone(2): 32768 pages.
    >
    > What do you (what is your workload) during the few minutes before the
    > crash?
    >
    > There are no significant driver changes in -pre4 that could affect you.
    >
    > Can you please try with mem=900M? I suspect something in the VM changes
    > might be causing this.

    Ah, have you tried to boot with "nmi_watchdog=1" as Mikael suggested?

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