Re: APIC error
Yep, sure enough, you guessed it. It is a bit of a strange problem.
Today i haven't gotten any of the APIC error messages at all. Just shows
how unstable the board is i guess. Yesterday i even had the machine
lockup once or twice, which was really annoying. This is all kinda
strange, it makes me almost wish i *hadn't* switched over to 2.4.1, since
i never had a problem with the 2.2.x series...
dave
On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Sean wrote:
> Let me guess, you have an Abit BP6 motherboard .....
>
> If so, don't worry about it ... the SMP on the BP6 is basically a hack job,
> which is why these error messages are getting generated. These things used to
> lock the kernel tight in the early 2.4.x days, but now they're just annoying
> messages. Even if you don't have a BP6, this is nothing to be worried about
> unless it's causing lock ups.
>
> What's happening, if I understand it correctly, is the CPU is getting "hung
> up" momentarily. Eventually it works itself out, which is why it isn't really
> an issue. There's the argument that it hurts system performance, but I don't
> think it does so to a measurable degree.
>
> Also, the kernel mailing list is going to be packed with emails about APIC,
> if you feel like sifting through the moutain of posts.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Sean
>
>
> On Monday 19 February 2001 15:46, Dave Bresson wrote:
> > Hi, in my system logs i'm getting tons and tons of this error message:
> >
> > APIC error on CPU0: 02(02)
> > APIC error on CPU0: 02(02)
> > APIC error on CPU0: 02(02)
> > APIC error on CPU0: 02(02)
> > APIC error on CPU0: 02(02)
> > APIC error on CPU0: 02(02)
> > APIC error on CPU0: 02(02)
> > APIC error on CPU0: 02(02)
> > APIC error on CPU1: 08(08)
> >
> >
> >
> > ...and so on. As you can probably tell, i'm running a SMP machine. I
> > just recently rolled my own 2.4.1 kernel based on the kernel-source-2.4.1
> > package in sid. I imagine this means i configured something wrong in my
> > kernel, however i'm not sure what it is, since i've make several kernels
> > for this machine before (with SMP support) and never come across this
> > error. Any ideas?
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> >
> >
> > dave
>
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