[ale] Lockups

[Van Loggins]

as a general rule, my experiences with linux and APIC is that they go
together about as well as Oil and water.

Just my 2 cents, good luck on fixing it!! :)

Van


On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 11:17:01 -0400, David Corbin <dcorbin at enttek.com> wrote:
> You're referring to the "Local APIC support on uniprococessors" option?
> 
> On Wednesday 29 September 2004 10:40 am, Tejus Parikh wrote:
> > I had a similar problem that resulted from the NVIDIA graphics driver
> > not cooperating nicely with local APIC.  You can disable it in the
> > kernel config, under processor options.  Once I did that, my uptime
> > under linux went from a few minutes - a few hours to more than three
> > months.
> >
> > On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 09:37, David Corbin wrote:
> > > I have Dell Dimesnion 4600 that dual boots as WIndows XP and Gentoo Linux
> > > (desktop), running Kernel 2.6.7.  It seems to suffer "random lockups",
> > > most often during the 'startup process".  The system is entirely frozen
> > > an unresponsive -- no mouse, not keyboard input.  no switching virtual
> > > screens. And the disk-activity light is 'on solid'.  OTOH, usually  if I
> > > can get booted, I can run for hours, or a day without any problems.
> > > Unfortunately, it runs pretty well under WIndows, considering the OS.
> > > FWIW, the two OSes are on different physical drives.
> > >
> > > I'm looking for suggestions on how to diagnose the root cause.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > David
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