Re: 2.4.0-testx fr0kedness?

From: Mitchell Blank Jr (mitch@sfgoth.com)
Date: Sat Oct 21 2000 - 19:59:12 EDT

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    Jason Slagle wrote:
    > It worked fine under 2.3.x and as a matter of fact worked fine under
    > 2.4.0-test1-4 I believe.
    >
    > I don't buy a hardware explination when I've been running this setup for
    > well over a year and only just now have problems :)

    It's because we've seen it a hundred zillion times before... weird problems
    with overclocked systems that the owners claim "work fine under any other
    version, so it must be a kernel bug".

    You could well be on the edge of where overclocking breaks down. There's
    some sequence of instructions and/or memory access in the kernel that is
    causing your particular CPU to croak every billionth time through. Maybe
    previous kernel compiles didn't emit those exact instructions and you
    lucked out.

    Anyway, turn off overclokcing and try to reproduce.

    -Mitch
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