On Tue, 16 Apr 1996 13:27:29 +0200 (MESZ), Bernd Schmidt
<crux@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> said:
> I did some more tests. I ran memtest86 on the machine for a few
> hours (80 passes). No errors. Then I disabled all caches, turned
> down the timing options in the BIOS, turned off the Turbo switch in
> front of the machine and rebooted. The machine usually has 33.2
> BogoMIPS, for this test it was running at 3.2 BogoMIPS. And I was
> still able to reproduce memory corruption with the patched
> 1.3.88. The same system is absolutely fine with caches on and all
> timings set to maximum when running kernels <=1.3.58, and broken
> with kernels >=1.3.59. This is not a flakey SIMM or an overheating
> CPU. It's a bug in the swapping code.
It was an oversight on my part, and has been there since 1.3.59.
Bruno Haible's fix (thanks!) is in 1.3.90. Can you reproduce the
problem still or are things better now?
Cheers,
Stephen.
-- Stephen Tweedie <sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk> Department of Computer Science, Edinburgh University, Scotland.