Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 8 Feb 1998 21:31:55 -0500 (EST) | From | Mike Frisch <> | Subject | FIC PA-2007 & Linux |
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(Please excuse me if this seems off-topic, but it raises perhaps an important kernel issue.)
I have an FIC PA-2007 Socket 7 motherboard with a Pentium 133 CPU installed... the board has worked flawlessly under Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0 (including image processing with 128MB RAM installed and over 100MB of swap on top of that). I just recently installed Linux onto this machine (2.1.85 with all packages listed in Documentation/Changes). I am running GNU C 2.7.2.3 on kernel 2.1.85 and I cannot compile any large applications (ie. compiler, kernel, etc) without SIG11s occurring randomly. Before anybody jumps to conclusions, I consider myself a competent system builder and have tried replacing the board, the memory (from two different suppliers and many different configurations) and NOTHING has helped.
Please, I do not want to hear "it works here", I want to know why this is happening... Given my experience running Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0 on this machine under far greater than average load, I would have to argue that it's not a hardware problem (yes, I've heard this "Windows doesn't use the system like Linux uses it" bullshit).
Any comments?
Thanks.
Mike.
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