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    From Jeff Smith@1:2320/100 to All on Thu Feb 9 00:07:26 2017
    Hello There,

    I just thought I would mention something that I noticed recently. I have a Intel based 64 bit P4 computer here that came with Win8. Some months ago I installed Ubuntu v16.10 64b on it. The install completed without any problems or issues. But I would randomly experience complete system lockups even with system sitting idle. In testing I found that Ubuntu v15.10 seemed to run fine on the same PC. This time with v16.10 installed I decided to upgrade the kernel to v4.5.0. Since the kernel upgrade I haven't noticed any lockups or other odd behavior. This is a spare PC that I pretty much use for testing. I have three other PC's that all run Ubuntu v16.04 without any problems. They are all AMD 64 bit 8-10 core based PC's.


    Jeff

    --- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-3
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  • From Jeff Smith@1:2320/100 to All on Sun Feb 12 21:37:50 2017
    Hello There,
    I just thought I would mention something that I noticed recently. I have
    a Intel based 64 bit P4 computer here that came with Win8. Some months
    ago I installed Ubuntu v16.10 64b on it. The install completed without
    any problems or issues. But I would randomly experience complete system lockups even with system sitting idle. In testing I found that Ubuntu
    v15.10 seemed to run fine on the same PC. This time with v16.10 installed
    I decided to upgrade the kernel to v4.5.0. Since the kernel upgrade I haven't noticed any lockups or other odd behavior. This is a spare PC
    that I pretty much use for testing. I have three other PC's that all run Ubuntu v16.04 without any problems. They are all AMD 64 bit 8-10 core
    based PC's.

    A second thing that seems to have helped is that using Ubuntu with a Intel based PC I edited the Grub config file and changed the line:

    From: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="quiet splash"

    To: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="quiet splash intel_idle.max_cstate=1"

    Then updated GRUB and then rebooted.

    So far the PC hasn't crashed or locked up once since the update. Fortunately, this isn't a critical PC so I can test different things out.


    Jeff




    --- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-3
    # Origin: The OuijaBoard - Anoka, MN (1:282/1031)
    * Origin: LiveWire BBS - Synchronet - LiveWireBBS.com (1:2320/100)