Re: 2.4.21 on Itanium2: floating-point assist fault at ip400000000062ada1, isr 0000020000000008

From: Alex Williamson
Date: Wed Mar 31 2004 - 13:26:11 EST


On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 11:06, David Mosberger wrote:

> If the messages appear with a frequency of less than 5 messages/5
> seconds, then there is certainly no performance issue and you may want
> to just turn off the messages.

But if you do get them at the maximum rate for a computational
application, performance could be _severely_ impacted (ie. orders of
magnitude).

Alex


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