On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 13:03 +0200, BERTRAND Joël wrote: > Blars Blarson a écrit : > > I've submitted bug 361214 about the frequent sparc SMP crashes with 2.6 > > kernels. > > > > Is anyone running a sparc 2.6 SMP kernel and NOT having the system > > crash under heavy disk I/O? Please let the bug know if you have any > > additional information. > > I use a sparc64 SMP kernel on my U60 (and on my U420) without any > trouble. Kernel is official kernel (not from debian tree): > Linux bohr 2.6.15.6 #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Mar 10 23:27:31 CET 2006 sparc64 > GNU/Linux > > I don't have any trouble with sparc64 architecture, only with 2.6 and > sparc32 :-( Maybe this bug come from the same location than the bug I > have submitted in bugzilla.kernel.org (#6344)... DMA mistake that only > occurs with heavy disk I/O... > > Regards, > > JKB > > We have found that some systems are fine with later 2.6 kernels (say, in the 2.6.15 series) and some are not. sparc32 systems are a problem; U1/U2 systems routinely "crash under heavy disk I/O", U60 now seem fine, SB1000 is fine, I think U5/U10 are OK, and so on. Regards, -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <fmccor@gentoo.org> Developer, Gentoo Linux (Devrel, Sparc)
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