[ILUG] Systems crashing on disk activity

[John Allen]

On Sunday 18 April 2004 14:34, Niall O Broin wrote:
> I have a nasty problem with which some of you are already familiar but
> I'm throwing it open to the wider community to see if anyone has any
> ideas.
>
> I admin a couple of servers which are hosted by Rackspace. Recently, we
> have upgraded those boxes. The new hardware has an AMD Athlon XP 2600+
> with a VIA chipset, 1GB of RAM and 2x36 GB SCSI disks RAID-1 on a
> Megaraid controller.
>

Ok this is an AthlonXP box. I need to append 
noapic nolocalapic mem=nopentium
and possibly 
acpi=off, or acpi=ht 

to make my Athlon boxes stable.

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John Allen,                          mailto:john.allen at dublinux.net
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