Hi all, I've been running into a few troubles on our HP XW6200 workstations. SYMPTOM 1: If I'm booting normally I'm getting theses errors in dmesg (using either a 2.6.16.x or 2.6.17.11): EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Adding 2048276k swap on /dev/sda3. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:2048276k EXT3 FS on sda2, internal journal ACPI Error (evgpe-0688): No handler or method for GPE[ 0], disabling event [20060127] ACPI Error (evgpe-0688): No handler or method for GPE[ 1], disabling event [20060127] ACPI Error (evgpe-0688): No handler or method for GPE[ 2], disabling event [20060127] ACPI Error (evgpe-0688): No handler or method for GPE[ 5], disabling event [20060127] ACPI Error (evgpe-0688): No handler or method for GPE[ 6], disabling event [20060127] ACPI Error (evgpe-0688): No handler or method for GPE[ 7], disabling event [20060127] ACPI Error (evgpe-0688): No handler or method for GPE[ 9], disabling event [20060127] ACPI Error (evgpe-0688): No handler or method for GPE[ A], disabling event [20060127] ACPI Error (evgpe-0688): No handler or method for GPE[ F], disabling event [20060127] ACPI Error (evgpe-0688): No handler or method for GPE[10], disabling event [20060127] ACPI Error (evgpe-0688): No handler or method for GPE[11], disabling event [20060127] ACPI Error (evgpe-0688): No handler or method for GPE[12], disabling event [20060127] ACPI Error (evgpe-0688): No handler or method for GPE[13], disabling event [20060127] ACPI Error (evgpe-0688): No handler or method for GPE[14], disabling event [20060127] ACPI Error (evgpe-0688): No handler or method for GPE[15], disabling event [20060127] ACPI Error (evgpe-0688): No handler or method for GPE[16], disabling event [20060127] ACPI Error (evgpe-0688): No handler or method for GPE[17], disabling event [20060127] ACPI Error (evgpe-0688): No handler or method for GPE[19], disabling event [20060127] ACPI Error (evgpe-0688): No handler or method for GPE[1A], disabling event [20060127] ACPI Error (evgpe-0688): No handler or method for GPE[1B], disabling event [20060127] ACPI Error (evgpe-0688): No handler or method for GPE[1C], disabling event [20060127] ACPI Error (evgpe-0688): No handler or method for GPE[1D], disabling event [20060127] ACPI Error (evgpe-0688): No handler or method for GPE[1E], disabling event [20060127] ACPI Error (evgpe-0688): No handler or method for GPE[1F], disabling event [20060127] mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice usbcore: registered new driver usbmouse Also, if I add the acpi=off it removes the ACPI Error msgs but then I just can see two cpu instead of the usual 4 (2 + hyper-threading)... I really don't know if I'm actually seing two physical CPU or just one with it's hyperthreading? Here is one cpuinfo: processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 15 model : 4 model name : Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.20GHz stepping : 1 cpu MHz : 3200.728 cache size : 1024 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 1 core id : 0 cpu cores : 1 fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 5 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe lm constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl cid cx16 xtpr bogomips : 6409.57 Top with acpi=off top - 17:57:51 up 1:28, 3 users, load average: 2.56, 2.61, 2.41 Tasks: 120 total, 4 running, 116 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu0 : 56.3% us, 5.5% sy, 0.0% ni, 31.4% id, 1.5% wa, 0.2% hi,5.1% si Cpu1 : 57.3% us, 5.7% sy, 0.0% ni, 33.1% id, 1.7% wa, 0.2% hi,2.0% si Top without acpi=off top - 17:58:42 up 8 min, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.05, 0.03 Tasks: 84 total, 1 running, 83 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu0 : 0.0% us, 0.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 100.0% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi,0.0% si Cpu1 : 0.0% us, 0.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 100.0% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi,0.0% si Cpu2 : 0.0% us, 0.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 99.0% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi,1.0% si Cpu3 : 0.0% us, 0.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 94.4% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi,5.6% si Note that noapic option did not changed any behaviour about this. ======================================================================== === SYMPTOM 2: Also, theses workstations are either running with 4gig or 5gig of ram (depending of the workstation..). If the kernel is not set-up into "bigmem" (64gig) then I can only see about 3gig of ram? Here is the meminfo WITHOUT 64gig highmem enabled: MemTotal: 3370236 kB MemFree: 3136524 kB Buffers: 8656 kB Cached: 119728 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 149880 kB Inactive: 45432 kB HighTotal: 2228180 kB HighFree: 2031484 kB LowTotal: 1142056 kB LowFree: 1105040 kB SwapTotal: 2048276 kB SwapFree: 2048276 kB Dirty: 4 kB Writeback: 0 kB Mapped: 85092 kB Slab: 17796 kB CommitLimit: 3733392 kB Committed_AS: 157468 kB PageTables: 620 kB VmallocTotal: 114680 kB VmallocUsed: 43564 kB VmallocChunk: 66036 kB And here is the same system WITH 64gig highmem enabled: MemTotal: 5189828 kB MemFree: 3583332 kB Buffers: 152364 kB Cached: 1201992 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 1098516 kB Inactive: 368720 kB HighTotal: 4325332 kB HighFree: 3002304 kB LowTotal: 864496 kB LowFree: 581028 kB SwapTotal: 2048276 kB SwapFree: 2048276 kB Dirty: 7672 kB Writeback: 0 kB Mapped: 166440 kB Slab: 120676 kB CommitLimit: 4643188 kB Committed_AS: 299400 kB PageTables: 2408 kB VmallocTotal: 118776 kB VmallocUsed: 43528 kB VmallocChunk: 70132 kB Note that noapic or acpi=off do not affect this. Has anybody ran into theses type of errors? Thnx! Vincent Fortier - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
