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This could be a combination fo things. VM hell could be one of them, so I recommend upgrading to 2.4.14. More importantly, upgrade your Nvidia card drivers: http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?PAGE=linux . Reading the release notes, i noticed that SMP fixes are included in that release. I remember reading somewhere that the next drivers will have improved SMP support, meaning that the current ones have shitty support. On 7 Nov 2001, Gerhard den Hollander wrote:
I've got a dual CPU (PIII/1Ghz) machien w/ nvidia geforce2MX card (the dual head one) / serverwroks chipset, IDE disk
And it's unstable as hell.
I cannot do much on it or the machine crashes. I've tried the defaults suse 7.2 kernel, as well as a whole bunch of homegrown ones (2.4.4, 2.4.7, 2.4.9, 2.4.10, ) I've tried reiserfs , i've tried ext3 Im back to ext2
Nothing works, When Im in X and start doing some serious X work it crashes when I don;t run X on the machine it's rocksolid.
I've run memtest 2.7 -> no errors I've swapped videocards with known good ones
I've tried pretty much every flavour of the Nvidia drivers and still no go.
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