Dell 2650 Dual Xeon freezing up frequently
I'm running a RedHat 2.4.20 kernel on some 2650's all dual xeon (pentium 4 jacksonized so it looks like 4 procsessors) 2 have 1GB of RAM and 1 has 2GB of RAM. THey all wedge, some times after a few minutes, sometimes after hours.
I hooked up a serial consol to capture a kernel panic or something else that would be fun to debug, no such luck.. It just locks up. No nothing.
I'm looking at the 2.4.21 change logs and I'm not seeing aynthing that sounds like it would fix this, a couple possible SMP issues but nothing that identifies Pentium 4 Xeon problems.
I've added one networking module but the problem happens without it being loaded, so my crap doesn't smell bad, yet ;-)
I'm spinning stuff on it in uniprocessor mode at the moment, seeing if that fixes anything.
any free clues?
thanks,
Ian
Quoted 4 lines · Ian S. Nelson
I'm running a RedHat 2.4.20 kernel on some 2650's all dual xeon
(pentium 4 jacksonized so it looks like 4 procsessors) 2 have 1GB of
RAM and 1 has 2GB of RAM. THey all wedge, some times after a few
minutes, sometimes after hours.
With tg3 networking. If so make sure you either have a current errata or switch to the broadcom provided driver and that may help.
Quoted 9 lines · Ian S. Nelson
I'm running a RedHat 2.4.20 kernel on some 2650's all dual xeon
(pentium 4 jacksonized so it looks like 4 procsessors) 2 have 1GB of
RAM and 1 has 2GB of RAM. THey all wedge, some times after a few
minutes, sometimes after hours.I hooked up a serial consol to capture a kernel panic or something else that would be fun to debug, no such luck.. It just locks up. No nothing.
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I'm looking at the 2.4.21 change logs and I'm not seeing aynthing that sounds like it would fix this, a couple possible SMP issues but nothing that identifies Pentium 4 Xeon problems.
I've added one networking module but the problem happens without it
being loaded, so my crap doesn't smell bad, yet ;-)I'm spinning stuff on it in uniprocessor mode at the moment, seeing if that fixes anything.
Try replacing the tg3 driver with the one found in newer kernels (2.4.22pre or 2.4.21) or make sure you are using the latest RH kernel with the updated tg3 driver. Do not use the bcm5700.o driver BTW, it has problems.
Another problem could be the aacraid controller, but they normally have a lot of noise associated with a hang. Unfortunately it's unclear at this time if that is a hardware problem, firmware problem, or driver problem.
Regards
James Bourne
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any free clues?
thanks,
Ian
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