AMD testing

[J. G. LaBounty]

Thanks for the info. We are using 3 - 1gb swap spaces  but very
little swap space is in use. The jobs we are running ( seismic
processing ) were designed for our old systems which only had 1gb of
memory. The longest we have ran without a panic is 3 days.

I have just downloaded the 2.4.13 kernel and the Alan Cox patches
for it. I will try both of these kernels.

> From: Andrew Shewmaker <shewa at inel.gov>
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> Cc: "J. G. LaBounty" <jgl at unix.shell.com>
> Subject: Re: AMD testing
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> John,
> 
> We have the same motherboard with 1.2GHz Athlons and 2GB of RAM.  We
> have seen no kernel panics on any of our machines for about 26 days.  
> We are using Mandrake 8.1 with its 2.4.8-26mdkenterprise kernel.  I 
> believe it is an Alan Cox kernel.
> 
> How much swap do you have?  We have 2046MB.  I know that the kernels 
> before 2.4.10 used a VM that wanted you to have twice as much swap as 
> RAM, but that VM was replaced in 2.4.10 and I believe that it should 
> require much less, so it looks like VM isn't the real issue.
> 
> I also compiled and ran Linus' 2.4.13 (for only a few minutes) and I 
> saw no kernel panics.
> 
> Andrew Shewmaker
> 
> * J. G. LaBounty <jgl at unix.shell.com> [011031 08:24]:
> > We have been running some tests with the TYAN S2460NG motherboard,
> > dual 1.5GHz AMD, and 2gb of memory. We are running a 2.4.9 kernel. 
> > We get an occasional kernel panic running this system. Dropping back 
> > to 1gb of memory and setting CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM, the system is rock solid.
> > I have tried the 2.4.11 and 2.4.12 kernels but they panic frequently.
> > 
> > Has anybody else on this list tried running the dual AMD's with more
> > than 1gb of memory? What kernel are you using?
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > John
> > 
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