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FromAlan Cox <>
SubjectRe: problems with memory/file corruption
DateTue, 9 Apr 1996 10:38:36 +0100 (BST)
> Well, Linux may be good, but it does seem strange that OS/2 and Win NT
> runs without any problems on the same machine. I have just had my entire
> motherboard & ram replaced and have the *exact* same problems in Linux.
>
> There is a nasty bug in Linux lurking somewhere, only going away when
> you disabel both the internal & external CPU caches.

Almost every report of this sort of thing has come down to faulty boards
or I/O. Almost - thats not every. Can you try and pin down things that make
a difference - eg disabling the PCI optimisation and 4Mb pages. Also if you
have a B stepping 100MHz pentium we need to know that.

Alan



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