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[Tero Mononen <tero@xxxxxxxxxx>]

 Argh,

Yeah, that's sadly true because of nolapic. Did you try to set only noapic?

The parameter nolapic causes this single core thing. Before I used only 
noapic and there were no freezing at all. Just few days ago I put also 
the nolapic.


Cheers,
Tero Mononen

On 10/27/2010 01:26 PM, Messir Voland wrote:
> Dear Tero,
>
> Your recommendations regarding noapic and nolapic (only both at once)* 
> work better*. At least I got no any freeze yet (8 hours). Usually 
> before I was getting 1-2 freezes at hour.
>
> The unpleasant side effect of this that kernel options is that now 
> system uses only one of two my core2duo CPUs.
>
> I will check for the stability more while I will try to understand 
> whether such behavior correct (1 core usage).
> At least this may be a kind of semi-solution.
>
> On 10/26/2010 12:14 AM, Tero Mononen wrote:
> >  Hi
> >
> > I could suggest you to try kernel parameter(s) noapic (and nolapic).
> >
> > I think my UL30vt freezed because of IRQ-routing problems in the 
> > apic. Now I've used Debian for 10 days with those two extra 
> > parameters and without any unstability problems (kop kop).  Earlier I 
> > was unable to get ~5 days uptime because of weird freezing.
> >
> > 2.6.32-5-amd64
> >
> >
> > Tero Mononen

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