Subject: oops in 2.0.30 with 686

Taufiq Habib (habit@connectnet.com)
Sun, 5 Oct 1997 17:06:39 -0700 (PDT)

I have installed linux on several Gateway P5/P6 133-233 PC's. The main
problem I've found is the Western Digital IDE hard drive. All my problems
went away when I switched to Seagate SCSI drives.
I would stay awat from the WD drives.

Taufiq Habib

> From: sheldon newhouse <pokie@mets.tcimet.net>
> Date: Fri, 3 Oct 1997 17:16:56 -0400 (EDT)
> Subject: oops in 2.0.30 with 686
>
> I don't know if this has been noted before, but we have several Gateway
> P6-200's running Redhat 4.2 and they are quite flakey.
>
> One is ide, has 64 Meg RAM, 128Meg swap and gives (with almost nothing
> running) frequent segfaults.
>
> Here is what happened with one of them.
> free(8060008) above top of memory.memtop = 806f800 membot = 8063f18