Re: Problems with the new "smp-calibration" routines
Pavel Machek (pavel@elf.ucw.cz)
Fri, 20 Feb 1998 19:00:47 +0100
> > I have an Asus P65UP5 motherboard with a C-P55T2D pentium-CPU-card
> > and two P166MMX Intel CPU's. The CPU's are overclocked, they run at 200MHz
> > For the last 6 month (using 2.0.x, 2.1.5x) I have no problems, the machine
> > runs very stable ! But I notice something strange: One CPU seems to be slower
> > than the other, because of different bogomips. Here my /proc/cpuinfo
>
> You've just been lucky. You should of course note any computation you did
> in the last 6 months is quite possibly going to contain errors and
> if
Do you think so? If there were problems, IMO they would much sooner
result in gcc segfaults, X crashes and similar. If computation would
be result in bad results really often, compiled programs would be
getting corrupted etc.
It is true that I *saw* kernel that compiled, and compiled bad due to
hw problem...
Pavel
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Look at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/ ;-).
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