On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 11:58 +0200, Willem Jan Withagen wrote: > Eirik Oeverby wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > my dual Opteron server is experiencing strange problems; the same I've > > been seeing since I installed it back in May. After a bit of uptime > > (varies between 1-2 days and a month or two, depending on the kernel > > release I am running) it will start acting up (if I'm lucky) or simply > > panic. I have no panic message dump, since the box is very far away and > > last time it paniced I had no serial console. > > Sounds a little like the trouble I had with my dual opteron system when I was > still running it on an MSI board. The main problem here seems to be the VIA > chipset. This is a Tyan S2882 board - K8S Pro I believe, with an AMD chipset. > > You are not running this hardware, are you? Otherwise strongly I suggest > changing it. I swapped it for Tyan Tiger, and no more of these problems since. Well, they are still there ;) Built a new kernel today, as I see a number of issues were resolved in RC1, however I want to wait for the next crash - if/when it happens. It is possible I could get some useful info out of it. No clue about the serial console questions I had? /Eirik > > --WjW > > > > >Received on Thu Oct 21 2004 - 08:02:56 UTC
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