Re: AMD64 Machine hardlocks when using memset

[Robert Hancock]

Alan Cox wrote:
> On Sad, 2005-04-02 at 05:50, Robert Hancock wrote:
>
> > I'm wondering if one does a ton of these cache-bypassing stores whether 
> > something gets hosed because of that. Not sure what that could be 
> > though. I don't imagine the chipset is involved with any of that on the 
> > Athlon 64 - either the CPU or RAM seems the most likely suspect to me
>
>
> The glibc version is essentially the "perfect" copy function for the
> CPU. If you have any bus/memory problems or chipset bugs it will bite
> you.

Anyone have any suggestions on how to track this further? It seems 
fairly clear what circumstances are causing it, but as for figuring out 
what's at fault..

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