Re: System lockup

Yeah, I've been surprised how many times things like this are caused by
having the same person setup the machines making the same assumptions.
Especially the number of times it been me setting up the machines. :-)

Also, look for things like kernel settings that may be causing this kind
of problem. I've seen a lot of issues with dma settings, or odd cards.
do they share the same kind of, say, nics or raid controllers? Could be a
common bug in a driver there too. Good luck on finding and fixing it...

On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, DeJuan Jackson wrote:

> The boxes that I've tested and gotten this problem on are as different
> as night and day, it's easier to sum up the similarities [they are all
> SMP systems with 2 processors (so your BIOS suggestion might fix things,
> I'll try to take a look the next time one of them drops)].
> I'm not sure if their BOIS/chipset maker is the same or not (Ones a
> DELL and the others an IBM).
>
> scott.marlowe wrote:
>
> >I use RH 7.2 for VERY heavy database/apache/ldap load and it never ever
> >locks up. How's your setup for things in the BIOS? I've found that
> >settings like SMP mode 1.1 versus 1.4 in some BIOSes makes a difference
> >(lockups with 1.1, works fine in 1.4). I'd take a look at what's common
> >on the boxes hardware wise, i.e. NICs, motherboards, video cards, hard
> >drives, scsi controllers, BIOS settings for the PCI bus or memory speed
> >etc...
> >
> >
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