Re: Pentium LIVES
Hans-Joachim Baader (hans@grumbeer.inka.de)
Thu, 13 Nov 97 22:23 MET
In article <Pine.LNX.3.95.971112180225.1589A-100000@chaos.analogic.com> you write:
>I ran my test program on the 2.1.63 kernel. The fix works! I also
>have a 64-bit random-number generator running on another machine
>to check for other problems on the Pentium. Without the prefix, one
>has to be careful because a loop-forever is possible. I fix this with
>an alarm-clock timeout of the child. Basically, I have been executing
>64-bits of random garbage (with the known sequences excluded). This
>has been running since 3-AM. I will run this for several weeks or
>until another bad sequence is found. The machine it's running on is
>presently not in use otherwise.
>
>It's been booted with init=/bin/bash to maximize the CPU cycles
>available for the test program.
Where can I get this program? I probably could waste one or more
machines to run it ;-)
Regards
hjb
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