Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:08:02 -0800 (PST) | | From | George Bonser <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Cyrix setup |
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> > - Suspend on halt: Do we really need to set it up during kernel > > boot? The example posted earlier mentioning system which died of overheating > > before it reached the rc scripts doesn't seem to be important from my > > point of view as it's certainly a HW problem and a machine suffering from > > such problems won't go reliably anyhow.
In a case that I was personally involved with, the system had a 6x86 and had odd errors while compiling a new kernel for IP-Masq after about a 1hr installation phase. It was a rather warm area (summer day about 85F and no air conditioning in the house). Installation of the 6x86 package and setting of the halt-on-idle cleared the problem. I suppose if one ran two or three kernel compiles back-to-back, it might still have faulted but allowing the CPU to cool down when inactive was enough to produce trouble-free performance. THe CPU would not get hot enough during a single compile to fault with the bit set. Otherwise, I agree. The only reason that Linux was put on that system anyway was because of unstable performance under windows probably also due to CPU overheating. WIth the bit set, the system has proved stable for its required use, an X desktop that displays applications running on a remote machine.
The problem was not in faulting before the rc scripts could be reached but in faulting before Linux could be installed, drives initialized, filesystems made, 6x86 downloaded, installed, configured and run.
George Bonser If NT is the answer, you didn't understand the question. (NOTE: Stolen sig) http://www.debian.org Debian/GNU Linux ... the maintainable operating system.
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