There is a nasty bug in Linux lurking somewhere, only going away when
you disabel both the internal & external CPU caches.
--Michael
On Sat, 6 Apr 1996, Simon Karpen wrote:
> I think that there is a real probability that most seem to overlook:
> marginal DRAM chips. Most current motherboards do not even support parity
> checking, let alone ECC. Newer versions of Linux are significantly faster
> than older ones (the speedup from 1.2.13 to 1.3.57, which i am running
> now, is probably at least 50%). some hardware that would work fine with
> the slower kernels is suddenly not quite fast enough. the lack of
> parity/ECC means that the errors that do crop up will often go undetected.
> a DOS-based memory checker is worthless as the OS/checker are too slow to
> really strain things. however, people might want to try swapping out
> their SIMMs (pref. with faster ones) and see if it helps.
>
> Regards,
> Simon Karpen
> karpens@nando.net
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