RE: NForce2 pseudoscience stability testing (2.6.0-test11)

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Date: 12/04/03

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    Date:	Thu, 04 Dec 2003 01:09:11 -0800
To: the3dfxdude@hotmail.com, prakashpublic@gmx.de

    Prakash Cheemplavam wrote
    >>>Thanks everyone for your continued interest in this, I'll
    >>>try and test the no-onboard-PATA + UP LAPIC and IOAPIC and
    >>>add-in-card-PATA with no onboard PATA + + UP LAPIC and IOAPIC
    >>>when I get a spare moment which is rare.
    >
    >I don't think that the AMD IDE is the problem. I have compiled
    >it in, as
    >well, but I am using the onboard SATA. Since this can be
    >considered as >an pci-card (the chip is connected to the pci
    > bridge) I think ölocking occurs on high traffic on PCI bus.
    > Like now I get over 60mb/s with my >HD. Formerly I got only
    > 25mb/s. before I could do some rounds of hdparm -t, before it
    > locks. Now it locks immediately when doing hdparm -t
    > when APIC is enabled.
    >
    >SO, I think it is not IDE specific. Does anybody have gigabit
    > network card? Maybe that we should try to push something big
    > through it (without reading from hd). If that leads to lock
    > up we have a semi proof that it is due to high traffic on
    > pci-bus.

    I was thinking that myself (PCI activity triggering this).
    The first time I hit this problem was with a card with two
    ACENics/tigon2 (acenic.o) sniffing traffic at high rates
    (100,000pps+) with most file i/o going over NFS on the
    integrated 3com interface.

    I ran for three days 200,000+pps sniffing with tethereal on
    windows2000 on both acenics and never a lockup.

    The AMD-Nvidia PATA does seem to be a very common in this
    problem, but everyone at least has a CD-ROM and most
    have a PATA hard disk so its going to be there every time
    a problems crops up. I think we need to prove that an
    solid add-in PCI PATA card that takes the CD and the
    and the PATA disk and shut off the onboard ATA and torture
    test again. I havent had time to yet.

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