Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 21 May 2004 14:04:03 -0400 | From | Timothy Miller <> | Subject | [OT] Linux stability despite unstable hardware |
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I have had some issues recently with memory errors when using aggressive memory timings. Although memory tests (like memtest86) pass fine, gcc would tend to crash and would generate incorrect code when compiling other things. Gcc couldn't even build itself properly under those conditions.
The really interesting thing is that the Linux kernel was totally unaffected. Compiling the Linux kernel is often thought of as a stressful thing for a system, yet compiling a kernel with a broken gcc on a system with intermittent memory errors goes through error free, and the kernel is 100% stable when running.
But until the memory errors were fixed, things like KDE wouldn't build without gcc crashing.
So, what is it about Linux that makes it build properly with a broken GCC and run perfectly despite memory errors?
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