On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 02:23:20PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
> Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 10:17:10 -0800
>
> Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> > I think this is a very very minor issue, I doubt anybody ever triggered
> > it in real life with linux.
>
> It is said that the crashes cease when the `nopentium' option
> is used, so it does appear that something is up.
>
> I does seem that the nVidia driver is usually involved.
>
> I think this is all "just so happens" personally, and all the that
> turning off the large pages really does is change the timings so that
> whatever bug is really present simply becomes a heisenbug.
My same wondering, however I wasn't sure how much the timing could
really change to make the kernel bugs trigger.
Andrea
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