Re: oops, signal 11

Ralf Baechle (ralf@uni-koblenz.de)
Mon, 22 Jan 2001 06:31:10 -0200


On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 01:46:50PM +0100, mkloppstech@freenet.de wrote:

> I know that signal 11 with gcc is a sign of bad hardware; however it
> strikes me that I don't get random oopses - a whole bunch of them is appended.

The compiler tends to hammer harder on the memory than the kernel; this
is a sign of the great effort which was taken to optimize the kernel's
cache usage.

Ralf
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