If anyone else has any patches to 2.2.10 which might fix the problems I
have been having, I would be willing to give them a try.
On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Aaron Lehmann wrote:
> >
> > I don't want to troubleshoot a hardware problem on linux-kernel, but I
> > strongly suspect that the CPU or ram is not at fault. I have been running
> > Linux on this machine ever since September and never changed any bios
> > settings (except enabling apm monitor blanking) since then. Heat is not a
> > problem since the machine is idle most of the time and oopsen usually
> > occur at a load level below 0.10, which is where the machine is at
> > usually. Running processor-intensive tasks for hours does not seem to
> > trigger anything, even on a hot summer day.
>
> Note that some classes of CPU bugs happen exactly _because_ of CPU
> shutdown for power management. If something in the CPU is not fully
> static, being _idle_ can be the thing that corrupts it..
>
> > > So I would strongly suggest turning off MTRR support, and see if the
> > > behaviour is more reliable.
> >
> > This does make sense, I think that Cyrix MTRR suport first got merged
> > in in 2.2.9, which is when the I started getting Oopsen. If I do have
> > more problems, I will try disabling it
>
> In addition to disabling the MTRR code, I would suggest disabling this
> code too:
>
> > Cyrix processor with "coma bug" found, workaround enabled
>
> but it does not have a config option, so you'll actually have to disable
> the code by hand in include/asm-i386/bugs.h (just search for 'coma bug').
>
> Linus
>
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