Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757246AbXLGS4S (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Dec 2007 13:56:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756667AbXLGS4A (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Dec 2007 13:56:00 -0500 Received: from ns1.primeinteractive.net ([195.95.205.253]:43423 "EHLO mail.primeinteractive.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755122AbXLGSz7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Dec 2007 13:55:59 -0500 X-Quarantine-ID: Message-ID: <47599734.1030505@primeinteractive.net> Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 19:55:48 +0100 From: Pavol Cvengros User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bill Davidsen CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ICH9 & Core2 Duo - kernel crash References: <200712041331.24678.pavol.cvengros@primeinteractive.net> <47585879.7010305@tmr.com> <200712070701.55283.pavol.cvengros@primeinteractive.net> <47598E1B.7010907@tmr.com> In-Reply-To: <47598E1B.7010907@tmr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2707 Lines: 72 Bill Davidsen wrote: > Pavol Cvengros wrote: >> On Thursday 06 December 2007 21:15:53 Bill Davidsen wrote: >> >>> Pavol Cvengros wrote: >>> >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> I am trying LKML to get some help on one linux kernel related problem. >>>> Lately we got a machine with new HW from Intel. CPU is Intel Core2 Duo >>>> E6850 3GHz with 2GB of RAM. Motherboard is Intel DG33BU with G33 >>>> chipset. >>>> >>>> After long fight with kernel crashes on different things, we >>>> figured out >>>> that if the multicore is disabled in bios, everything is ok and >>>> machine >>>> is running good. No kernel crashes no problems, but with one core >>>> only. >>>> >>>> This small table will maybe explain: >>>> >>>> Cores - kernel - state >>>> 2 - nonsmp or smp - crash >>>> 1 - smp or nonsmp - ok >>>> >>>> All crashes have been different (swaper, rcu, irq, init.....) or we >>>> just >>>> got internal gcc compiler error while compiling kernel/glibc/.... >>>> and the >>>> machine was frozen. >>>> >>>> Please can somebody advise what to do to identify that problem more >>>> precisely. (debug kernel options?) >>>> >>>> Our immpresion - ICH9 & ICH9R support in kernel is bad... sorry to >>>> say.. >>>> >>> I have seen unusual memory behavior under heavy load, in the cases I >>> saw >>> it was heavy DMA load from multiple SCSI controllers, and one case with >>> FFT on the CPU and heavy network load with gigE. Have you run >>> memtest on >>> this hardware? Just a thought, but I see people running Linux on that >>> chipset, if not that particular board. >>> >>> A cheap test even if it shows nothing. Of course it could be a CPU >>> cache >>> issue in that one CPU, although that's unlikely. >>> >> >> yes, memtest was running all his tests without problems. The wierd >> thing is that all kernel crashes we have seen were different (as >> stated in original mail).... >> >> > The problem with memtest, unless I underestimate it, is that it > doesn't use all core and siblings, so it doesn't quite load the memory > system the way regular usage would. Needless to say, if this does turn > out to be a memory loading issue I don't know of any tools to really > test it. I fall back on part swapping, but that only helps if it's the > memory DIMM itself. > right now that machine has 2 x 1GB DDR2 - 800MHz.... do you think I should test the machine with only one DDR? (I hope to put there 4GB all together) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/