Hi all, Sorry to report, my system is still not stable. Details below. Best regards On Saturday 10 April 2004 11:51, Paul C. Leopardi wrote:
I have been having stability problems with my hardware and various combinations of software since I first assembled my machine. What follows is a list of some of the things I did to get a stable system. No doubt, not all of them are necessary.
After submitting the last message, I started a large make, and two things happened: 1) The screen and keyboard froze, including the cursor. 2) After reboot, I saw the following error message in the logs: Kernel BUG at rmap:569 invalid operand: 0000 [1] CPU 0 Pid: 43, comm: kswapd0 Tainted: P RIP: 0010:[try_to_unmap_one+163/608] <ffffffff80162793>{try_to_unmap_one+163} RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff80162793>] <ffffffff80162793>{try_to_unmap_one+163} Call Trace: <ffffffff80162eb6>{try_to_unmap+1382} <ffffffff80159b01>{shrink_zone+2353} <ffffffff8015a2aa>{balance_pgdat+346} <ffffffff8015a5a5>{kswapd+309} <ffffffff801334a0>{autoremove_wake_function+0} <ffffffff801334a0>{autoremove_wake_function+0} <ffffffff8010febf>{child_rip+8} <ffffffff8015a470>{kswapd+0} <ffffffff8010feb7>{child_rip+0} PS. I've also checked the logs to see the effect of "iommu=noagp" on the NVIDIA kernel module: Before: 0: nvidia: loading NVIDIA Linux x86_64 NVIDIA Kernel Module 1.0-5332 Fri Jan 9 12:42:32 PST 2004 agpgart: Found an AGP 3.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0. agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 8x mode agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:02:00.0 into 8x mode After: 0: nvidia: loading NVIDIA Linux x86_64 NVIDIA Kernel Module 1.0-5332 Fri Jan 9 12:42:32 PST 2004 0: NVRM: AGPGART: unable to retrieve symbol table 0: NVRM: not using NVAGP, kernel was compiled with GART_IOMMU support!!