Dell PowerEdge 1900sc freezing overnight

[Tom Bamford]

Ivan Krstić wrote:
> Try adding the 'noapic nolapic acpi=off' options to the end of your 
> kernel boot line and see if that stops the freezes. I've seen this 
> behavior on Dell kits before.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -- 
> Ivan Krstić <krstic at solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu> | http://radian.org

Cheers, I will try turning off acpi as it's not needed in this case. 
Being a multiprocessor system, will the 'noapic' or 'nolapic' options 
have any major side effects?

Thanks for your help,
Tom