I've also got an AV8-DX with Athlon 64 3500+, and have no problem with it. It's very stable.
Your multitasking problem might be related to the way the new scheduler in 2.6 works. I've got the same problem when running applications that starts two or more communicating processes and when the total application is running 100%. The worst such application I know is modelsim. It starts one process for the HDL-simulator and one for the TCL-interpreter. In many cases are the HDL-simulator driven by TCL-scripts. In such cases can you end up with both processes running 100% and communicating all the time. The default 2.6 scheduler boost the priority for a process waking up another process, and also boost the newly woken up process. In the modelsim case is both processes boosted by the scheduler, and other processes suffer soo much that the computer isn't usable for other tasks at the same time as modelsim is running. The simple solution for this problem is to run modelsim under nice higher than 0. The 2.6 scheduler don't seem to boost applications with nice>0. 2.4 don't suffer from this problem at all, I've tested on the same hardware with the same applications. / Anders -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
