On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Adam McKenna wrote:
> I'm experiencing general instability with my new Athlon system under linux.
> It seems that any heavy disk access causes problems. I've also experienced
> hard lockups under X, and _really_ strange problems, where things like IP
> masq/forwarding were still working, but I couldn't do anything on the local
> box.
I saw the same.
In the end, it was broken RAM. Even if it had worked good on a previous
Asus MB + K6III, even if it *now* works ok on the same system, on the
Athlon one it was causing many *different* problems (random crashes).
> Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 000000a0
^^^^^^^^
this seems to be a 0, with a "wrong" bit set to 1. I had the same
(it was 000000c0). If it's a constan (one bit changed) in your oops,
you should really check your RAM.
.TM.
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