Re: AMD64 Machine hardlocks when using memset

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Wed Apr 06 2005 - 02:03:09 EST


Hi,

On Wednesday, 6 of April 2005 06:05, Robert Hancock wrote:
> 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..

Well, I would start from changing memory modules.

Greets,
Rafael


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