[CentOS] System hangs silently

[Rodrigo Barbosa]

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On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 08:38:09AM -0000, Plant, Dean wrote:
> Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
> >>> Have you tried disabling hyperthreading? I had suffered this problem
> >>> when we started buying Intel Xeon's, disabling HT'ing seemed to fix
> >>> the problem for me.
> >> 
> >> Some people suggested that too.  I'm asking for two of these systems
> >> to be sent back from  our remote data center.  I'll try it then.
> >> 
> >> Did you just ended up running without hyperthreading?  Did you ever
> >> find a solution?  It seems an awful waste if you can't use it.
> > 
> > Disabling HT only solves it on single processor systems.
> 
> In my case it fixed our dual processor systems (Dell PE2650) but to be
> honest I was never quite sure if it was an OS patch or HT'ing. I just
> disable HT'ing, build and they just work, I have not seen this problem
> for a while now.

Did't solve for me on a Dual Xeon. The problem was reduced, happens
less frequently, but still happens :(

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Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob at suespammers.org>
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