[olug] Need guru help

[Jonathan Warren]

I used to get these on my dual BP6 with overclocked celron 433's.  Boy was that system a pain in the neck.  It is still setup but it keeps screwing up harddrives that I plug into the ide controller and I have to do low level formats to bring them back.  Overall I ran the system for two years and most of the problems seemed to be between a SB live and the motherboard.  I guess my point of all this is I don't think you need to worry about it however my system was never truely "stable" so maybe it was a sign of a different problem.  Anyway good luck.

-Jon Warren

On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 02:48:22PM -0400, Carl Lundstedt wrote:
> Hey OLUG & HLUG,
> Ok, so I've set up a server for my research group at UNL.  It's a dual
> PIII 1GhZ machine on a Tyan motherboard.  I had to recompile the kernel
> to get the built in promise RAID controller to at least act like an ide
> controller.  (I used Mandrake 8.2 as a launching point since I'm
> familiar with it's server setups. RH 7.3 gave me fits.)
> 
> With the custom kernel build I get the following errors (warnings?)
> intermittently (shows up in /var/log/messages)
> 
> Jun 17 08:28:06 crop kernel: APIC error on CPU0: 02(04)
> Jun 17 08:28:06 crop kernel: APIC error on CPU1: 04(08)
> 
> I didn't see these with with the stock SMP kernel.  I can change the
> frequency by monkeying with some kernel settings before recompile (these
> errors were coming in every 15 seconds), but I'm not sure (now) what
> settings helped curb them (I may have just shut down the APIC
> reporting.)
> 
> 
> a) Do I need to worry about these?  I've seen on the web that these
> don't mean anything if the system is stable (but I have had some
> weirdness with this machine, in particular lost interrupts and lost
> ethernet cards, but these have cleared up since the last
> re-config/recompile).  What do these errors mean?
> 
> b) What can I do about this?
> 
> c) Why wouldn't these show up in the stock smp kernel?
> 
> d) other thoughts?
> 
> If it would help, I can send a partial .config for the kernel.
> 
> Carl Lundstedt
> UNL
> 
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