[Asterisk-Dev] Re: asterisk crushes DEll PE 1750 SMP

[Tony Mountifield]

In article <1080281533.15379.12.camel at camelot.newcamelot.net>,
Alex Litvak <asterisk-dev at lists.digium.com> wrote:
> I have a following hardware:
> 
> Dell PowerEdge 1750 
> 2 x 2.8 Xeon
> 1 GB of RAM
> Broadcom Gigabit card running tg3 drivers
> Redhat 9 with kernel 2.4.25 compiled with SMP support.
> 
> I use a single port digium fxo card for timer.
> 
> Today we experienced crashes every 15 minutes with message like this
> 
> Interrupt handler not syncing
> Killing Interrupt handler.
> 
> There is also asterisk process displayed with the process id.
> 
> Does anyone knows what the problem can be and where to start looking?

Try turning off hyperthreading, by adding the "noht" option to the
kernel boot options in grub.conf or lilo.conf

Cheers,
Tony
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