Mysterious kernel hangs

[Felix Rauch]

On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Felix Rauch wrote:
> We recently bought a new 16 node cluster with dual 1 GHz PentiumIII
> nodes, but machines mysteriously freeze :-(
[...]

Thanks for the many hints I got. The solution:

It was a problem with the BIOS/firmware of the boards. After it has
been replaced, the machines seem to run without problems.

- Felix
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