[Fwd: Re: Dual processor, AMD 64 machine freezing.]

[Mark Sergeant]

It should be noted that I was able to do a make world & kernel without
the machine hanging on the local console. When I rebooted the machine
and typed ifconfig the machine again hung so this seems to be pointing
to network issues for sure. What are the thoughts on dropping in an fxp0
card.

Cheers,

Mark

-----Forwarded Message-----
> From: Mark Sergeant <msergeant at snsonline.net>
> To: Andreas Braukmann <braukmann at tse-online.de>
> Subject: Re: Dual processor, AMD 64 machine freezing.
> Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 10:00:23 +1000
> 
> On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 09:40, Andreas Braukmann wrote:
> > On 02/02/04 09:19:33 +1000 Mark Sergeant wrote:
> > > 	I've just installed 5.2-RELEASE-AMD64 on a dual opteron 248 machine,
> > > with the following specs :
> > > 
> > > Tyan Thunder Motherboard
> > 
> > Which model? There are several Thunder K8 Boards out there.
> > K8S, K8S Pro, K8W, etc. 
> 
> K8S 2880
> > 
> > Furthermore: which BIOS Release?
> > I had trouble with all but the initial BIOS-Release for my
> > Thunder K8S (2880) Boards under i386-stable and i386-current
> > concerning interrupt routing issues (with and without ACPI).
> > I hope testing the various BIOS revisions under amd64-current
> > really soon.
> > 
> > > 2 x Opteron 248
> > > 2 x 1GB sticks PC 2700 ECC ram
> > > adaptec scsi raid card.
> > > raid 5 array + 1 hot spare.
> > > Motherboard has onboard video, dual intel gigabit nics (bge).
> > 
> > Intel or Broadcom? The "intel" nics would be em(4), the Broadcom
> > nics would be bge(4). The Thunder K8S comes with dual bge(4).
> > >From the dmesg-output your board looks like the K8S (2880).
> > You may try to downgrade your BIOS to V1.07.
> 
> My mistake, I looked at the chip on the motherboard and it said intel
> gigabit, these are broadcom's which I have had trouble with previously
> with an smp setup. I've got the v1.07 bios installed at the moment.
> 
> > 
> > > The last freeze I had it was a panic, but the majority of the time the
> > > machine completely locks up. Any help people can give me would be much
> > > appreciated, I can't even do a build world as it fails within 5 minutes
> > > of kicking off the buildworld.
> > 
> > Looks quite like an interrupt storm.
> > 
> > Do you mind showing the mptable output?
> 
> http://www.snsonline.net/~sarge/mptable.out
> 
> > 
> > My boards where rock-stable with complete unconfigured nics; since
> > the culprit was a misrouted interrupt for the broadcoms. Sometimes
> > doing an ifconfig was sufficient to "halt" the machine, sometimes
> > I had to initiate a ftp transfer or other means to generate some
> > network traffic.
> > 
> 
> I do have to agree that this seems to be a problem with the onboard
> nics, I'm contemplating dropping in an fxp0 nic, but I do really need
> the onboard gigs :/
> 
> > -Andreas
-- 
Mark Sergeant <msergeant at iexec.com.au>
iExec.com.au Corporate Internet Solutions
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