On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Thomas Dodd wrote: > > > Christopher Keller wrote: > > > > Yeah, I've had random lockups about once a day since I migrated work > > workstation at work to Linux. Completely random, always figured it was > > the soundblaster interaction. > > > > To see if you're vulnerable: > > Looks like I'm susceptible. I've since added the mem=nopentium line in > > grub. We'll see what happens.... > > The discussion I saw on the kernel list said > that linux wouldn't suffer at all. > The 4MiB pages are never used in the way > required to trigger this. (non aligned invalidate?) > > Appearentl geentoo saw it with the NVIDIA kernel drivers, > and other questionable patches, which may trigger the bug. > > Haven't saw a comment from Alan Cox on the subject yet > though, and he will probably clarify the issue. Both Alan Cox and Andrea Arcangeli among others have stated on lkmk that this is not a problem for linux. According to the lkml traffic gentoo did something weird to tweak this bug. This is also Ot for this list. Sorry. HTH, -- ......Tom BITTERNESS: Never be Afraid to Share Your Dreams tdiehl@rogueind.com with the World, Because There's Nothing the World Loves More Than the Taste of Really Sweet Dreams.
