On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, Mike Hardy wrote: > Slightly more on-topic, one thing that I have do to frequently is boot > with noapic or acpi=off due to interrupt handling problems with various > motherboards. I've seen this (and made mention of it here in the past) it basically boils down to cheap motherboards with buggy chipsets )-: Some BIOSes let you select PIC or APIC - on these buggy ones, I stick to PIC. > Additionally, I think there have been reports of problems with raid and > LVM, and there have also been problems with SATA and possibly with > Maxtor drives, so you have may have some tweaking to do. Mentioning > versions of things (distribution, kernel, hardware parts and part > numbers etc) would help I had problems some 2 years ago when I first dabbled with LVM. Quickly found problems with performance and random crashes and not having time to persue it further, left it alone and haven't ventured back since! > I'm interested to hear what other people do to burn their machines in > though... Looks like we do someting similar... So that can't be bad! I'm sure there is plenty cpu left over for me to do stuff like compiles, etc. Many years ago I used to write diagnostics for compter systems - memory, cpu, IO, etc. there were cases where the systems would pass all the diags faultlessly for days on end, then crash 2 minutes into the application, so theres no substitute for real life testing... Gordon - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
