Re: SMP stability issues

On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 08:55:21AM -0800, Byron Servies wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm not saying this is your problem, but a few years ago I had a VP6  
> that worked in single CPU mode but not dual with NetBSD 1.6.   
> Eventually, after having it lock up periodically, I gave up and ran  
> it as a single CPU machine.  That lasted a couple of months before  
> the CPU0 socket failed entirely and the machine stopped booting at all.
> 
> No smoke.  No noise.  The board/cpu was just plain bad, and there was  
> no indication before it let go for good that this was the case.

I don't think it's a broken board in my case; all the apollo-pro based
dual-PIII motherboard I tried shows this behavior.

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Manuel Bouyer <[email protected]>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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