Subject: Re: Ultra 10 stability.
To: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
From: Rafal Boni <rafal@attbi.com>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 12/19/2002 17:39:13
In message <20021219215608.GC744@drowsy.duskware.de>, you write:
-> On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 01:43:50PM -0800, Andrew Gillham wrote:
->
-> > I would like to have this machine stable, but I haven't had much luck so
-> > far. Anyone have any suggestions on stable kernels?
->
-> What CPU is that? My U5 @ 270 MHz is realy stable running -current, but my
-> U60 @ 360 MHz has problems. Sometimes these show up as RED state exceptions
-> on the serial console - but then firmware is hosed, so maybe with a real
-> console it wouldn't even get to printing the message.
->
-> Both run pretty stable on 1.6.
Let me second Martin's assesment that it does seem timing related. My U5
which has this issue has a 360Mhz CPU, and ran months at a time all the
way from the 1.6 release cycle to ~ mid-to-end of September (I think my
choice of a cutoff date of 9/21 was due to Chuq's rototill of the pmap,
which seems to have exposed this problem).
--rafal
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Rafal Boni rafal@attbi.com
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