Re: Pentium memcpy patch

Fabrice Popineau (popineau@esemetz.ese-metz.fr)
05 Jun 1996 10:40:30 +0200


>>>>> "Chris" == Chris Evans <chris@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk> writes:

Chris> Hi all,

Chris> I'm dubious about using the pentium-memcpy patch as the
Chris> author says he sees bit errors with the patch when
Chris> operating under high load.

Chris> Can anyone post saying if they are using the patch
Chris> flawlessly under load, or conversely had these problems
Chris> with the patch?

It might depend on what do you call 'heavy load'. I compiled kernel
with 'make -j', load climbs up to 23 and everything was fine.

However I wouldn't put these patches on my news server.

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