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Andre Schulze | 23 Sep 2002 22:49
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hardware: qube2 and random lockups

Hi list,

my qube2 locks up at more or less random times. As nobody seems to complain
about lockups in this list i conclude that it must be a hardware issue.
I used different kernels over the time (1.5, 1.5.1 and some compiled from
source) and still those lockups.
Most of the time the box locks up during large nfs file transfers but
it also crashed while compiling stuff.

I changed the hard drive some time ago but i also had those stability problems
before that.
Do you have any hints what i can do to track down the problem? Test the
memory in a x86 box? Ah, by the way: i only have one memory module so
swapping them around makes no sense i suppose. But i don't even know if the
memory is the one shipped from cobalt since i got this box as a used one.

Any hints welcome,

	andre
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Byron Servies | 24 Sep 2002 17:20
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Re: hardware: qube2 and random lockups

On September 23, 2002 at 22:49, Andre Schulze wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> my qube2 locks up at more or less random times. As nobody seems to complain
> about lockups in this list i conclude that it must be a hardware issue.
> I used different kernels over the time (1.5, 1.5.1 and some compiled from
> source) and still those lockups.
> Most of the time the box locks up during large nfs file transfers but
> it also crashed while compiling stuff.
> 
> I changed the hard drive some time ago but i also had those stability problems
> before that.
> Do you have any hints what i can do to track down the problem? Test the
> memory in a x86 box? Ah, by the way: i only have one memory module so
> swapping them around makes no sense i suppose. But i don't even know if the
> memory is the one shipped from cobalt since i got this box as a used one.

Did you replace the original memory with the new, single
module?  If not, then is your swap configured and mounted
correctly?

In any event, it sounds to me like you are running out of memory,
unless the logs are showing a crash of some type.  I'm running
a 1.6 beta kernel, btw, and it has been fine; I'm sure the
official release is fine, too.

Byron
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Jamie Heilman | 25 Sep 2002 00:42

Re: hardware: qube2 and random lockups

> my qube2 locks up at more or less random times.
...
> Most of the time the box locks up during large nfs file transfers but
> it also crashed while compiling stuff.

How often?  Can you reliably make it occur?  I've suffered 1 lockup
running 1.6 beta 4 during large NFS file transfers (10 to 12 50-60M
files in a row).  I've since upgraded to 1.6 release (used build.sh,
no lockups, nice and smooth), so far no lockups, haven't hammered it
quite as hard yet though.  Still I wasn't able to reliably reproduce
the crash, and the first time it happened I didn't have the console
monitored so I'm not sure what really happened.

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Robert P. Thille | 25 Sep 2002 09:35
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Re: hardware: qube2 and random lockups


On Tuesday, September 24, 2002, at 03:42  PM, Jamie Heilman wrote:

>> my qube2 locks up at more or less random times.
> ...
>> Most of the time the box locks up during large nfs file transfers but
>> it also crashed while compiling stuff.
>
> How often?  Can you reliably make it occur?  I've suffered 1 lockup
> running 1.6 beta 4 during large NFS file transfers (10 to 12 50-60M
> files in a row).  I've since upgraded to 1.6 release (used build.sh,
> no lockups, nice and smooth), so far no lockups, haven't hammered it
> quite as hard yet though.  Still I wasn't able to reliably reproduce
> the crash, and the first time it happened I didn't have the console
> monitored so I'm not sure what really happened.

I've got a couple of Qube2 machines running 1.5.2.  They are pretty 
lightly used: one's my DSL router for my house, and the other is pretty 
much just a spare that I build packages on and try things out.  I've 
seen both machines lock up more than once, but I haven't seen it in a 
few months.

I also didn't have a console on either machine's serial port, so I don't 
know what happened either :-(

Robert
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Andre Schulze | 25 Sep 2002 23:26
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Re: hardware: qube2 and random lockups

Am Die den 24 Sep 2002 um 03:42:42 -0700 schrieb Jamie Heilman:
> > my qube2 locks up at more or less random times.
> ...
> > Most of the time the box locks up during large nfs file transfers but
> > it also crashed while compiling stuff.
> 
> How often?  Can you reliably make it occur?  I've suffered 1 lockup

No, no reproducable lockups exept for when i netboot an Irix box from
this box. However i did'nt test this recently with the new 1.6
installation (this is another story...).

> running 1.6 beta 4 during large NFS file transfers (10 to 12 50-60M
> files in a row).  I've since upgraded to 1.6 release (used build.sh,
> no lockups, nice and smooth), so far no lockups, haven't hammered it

Building from sources locked the box up too several times.

> quite as hard yet though.  Still I wasn't able to reliably reproduce
> the crash, and the first time it happened I didn't have the console
> monitored so I'm not sure what really happened.
> 
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Am Mit den 25 Sep 2002 um 12:35:34 -0700 schrieb Robert P. Thille:
> 
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> 
> I've got a couple of Qube2 machines running 1.5.2.  They are pretty 
> lightly used: one's my DSL router for my house, and the other is pretty
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