J�rgen Wilke wrote:
> Well, if it was only the X server... In my case, the machine just
> freezes from one moment to the other and is instantly dead (doesn't even
> respond to ping). Normally, I would suppose it to be some hardware
> issue, but why then did it run perfectly stable under 2.0.38?
Excuse me for replying from a UP mashine, but it exibits a behaviour similar to
yours.
Intel pentium S 133 oc'd to 150 on ECS 66Mhz MB, oc'd to 75Mhz, SiS
85c503/551/5513 chipset, NCR 53c810, RH 6.0/2.2.5-15, XFree86-3.3.3.1-49.
Now, the mobo has only 256KB L2 cache with 128MB FPM ram installed.
I guess it will only cache the first 64MB ram, and consequently might be
confused with more memory than it can cache, so after disabling the L2 cache, my
problems completely disapppeared.
Right now I running seti, 7 netscape 4.7 browsers + mail, gimp, apache etc.,
swapping 86MB, no problems, up 2 days, 12:01.
I can even do downloads with netscape and hotjava simultaneously, used to crash
at the mere sight of the net, among others ;-
It didn't behave badly when using 2.0x.
I was sure it was a pure hardware problem, but your comment makes me wonder if
different kernels influence cache stability
Disabling the L2 cache is not nice to do, but it might isolate your problem.
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