| | Date | Thu, 13 Nov 1997 18:40:43 +0100 (MET) | | From | Rik van Riel <> | | Subject | Re: 2.1.63 - testing Pentium bug workaround.. |
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On Wed, 12 Nov 1997, Joey Hess wrote:
> I tried it on my system. The bug was detected, the kernel enabled the > workaround, and the bug was still able to freeze my system solid. :-( > I have a pentium 166 processor.
What stepping is your CPU? Mine is a stepping 12 and I'm able to run a
while true; do PentiumF00F & PentiumF00F & PentiumF00f & done
for quite some minutes :-) After some 1200 PentiumF00F processes I decided to quit the while loop...
Rik.
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