Re: SMP kernel from RHEL3 only with noapic?

I am thinking it is a bug with various Mother Boards (MB). I am running
SMP on a Dell Precision 530 for all of Taroon without having to add
noapic.

On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 07:34, Matt Poepping wrote:
> I'll have to second this. If I don't use the noapic option, 
> keventd takes up a lot of cpu.
> (on Redhat WS 3.0)
> 
> 
> Milan Kerslager wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have Dual PIII 1GHz machine. I tryed to run RHEL on it (Taroon). I
> > have to use noapic as kernel parameter to run in SMP mode (system hangs
> > after some [OK] messages).
> > 
> > Is this a bug of MB (Bios?) or may I help with providing more
> > information (I know that APIC is for IRQ routing in SMP mode)?
> > 
> > # lspci
> > 00:00.0 Host bridge: ServerWorks CNB20LE Host Bridge (rev 05)
> > 00:00.1 Host bridge: ServerWorks CNB20LE Host Bridge (rev 05)
> > 00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 08)
> > 00:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage IIC (rev 7a)
> > 00:0f.0 ISA bridge: ServerWorks OSB4 South Bridge (rev 4f)
> > 00:0f.1 IDE interface: ServerWorks OSB4 IDE Controller
> > 03:02.0 RAID bus controller: American Megatrends Inc. MegaRAID (rev 20)
> > 03:06.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c896 (rev 06)
> > 03:06.1 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c896 (rev 06)
> > 
> 
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