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On Fri, 3 Oct 1997, Doug
Ledford wrote:
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> > I don't know if this has been noted before, but we have several Gateway
> > P6-200's running Redhat 4.2 and they are quite flakey.
> >
> > One is ide, has 64 Meg RAM, 128Meg swap and gives (with almost nothing
> > running) frequent segfaults.
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> If these are recent GW2k machines, then they probably have SDRAM instead of
> regular DRAM. I would suspect that the SDRAM might be getting tripped up by
> linux where as it would pass DOS/Win95 tests. I tried SDRAM in a linux box
> that didn't originally come with SDRAM once...... It seems you really need
> to know the particulars of the MB, BIOS, timings from chipset, and a few
> other things to be able to get SDRAM and have it be reliable. In general,
> SDRAM is touchy, and bad or improperly speced SDRAM would cause the likes of
> what you are seeing (frequent segfaults).
>
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