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

From: David Mosberger
Date: Wed Mar 31 2004 - 13:40:26 EST


>>>>> On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 11:23:53 -0700, Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxx> said:

Alex> 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.

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

Good point.

--david
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