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SubjectRe: Postal 56% waits for flock_lock_file_wait
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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