Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:40:12 -0400 | From | Dave Jones <> | Subject | Re: Postal 56% waits for flock_lock_file_wait |
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On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 11:00:36PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > Ar Llu, 2006-10-02 am 13:40 -0400, ysgrifennodd Dave Jones: > > On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 06:51:56PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > "or similar" maybe. The iRam is pretty much junk in my experience[*]. > > It rarely survives a mkfs, let alone sustained high throughput I/O. > > (And yes, I did try multiple DIMMs, including ones which survive > > memtest86 just fine). > > That appears to depend on the firmware and featureset used. With vaguely > recent firmware apart from the "failed diagnostics at boot" bug the one > I was loaned seems to be reliable and has fairly recent firmware.
Mine was latest hardware (rev 1.3), and there wasn't any firmware update available that I could see. :-/
> > [*] And from googling/talking with other owners, my experiences aren't unique. > Agreed - even in windows 8)
It's amazing crap like this reaches the store shelves.
Dave
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