Hi David, > On 03/26/2010 11:41 AM, Peter 'p2' De Schrijver wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Thanks to Jan Rovins and David Daney we linux 2.6.33 working fine with 1 additional >> patch for the ethernet NICs. We are using this machine as a buildd. Unfortunately >> we found out that building gcc 4.5 using all available 16 cores causes the machine >> to lock up after about 6 hours of building. There is no output on the serial >> console indicating a kernel panic or some malfunction. The machine is hosted in >> some data center so physical access is difficult. >> >> Any insight welcome ! >> >> Thanks, >> > > What is the output of: > > cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep 'system type' > > p2@corelli:/home/buildd$ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep 'system type' system type : CUST_WSX16 (CN3860p3.X-500-EXP) > Also you could try running with the attached patch. It is not the best > watchdog, but it will print the register state for each core when things > get stuck. Occasionally that is enough to see where the problem is. > Ok. I will try that. Thanks, Peter.