System errors under heavy load and with kernels > 2.4.0-test3-pre5

[Zwane Mwaikambo]

>Linux version 2.4.0-test3 (root@a70) (gcc version 2.95.3 20010315
>(release)) #2 Sat Jan 5 22:01:56 CET 2002

I understand that you've tested upto and including 2.4.16 but that kernel
oops information is a bit dated. Please reproduce with latest 2.4.18-pre
and submit a decoded oops.

>Not overclocked. I even tried to lower the speed to 375 MHz, running 75
>MHz bus speed.

Although you're not overclocking your CPU, you're actually overclocking
most of the busses on your system now...

>The problems disappear if I disable the secondary cache, but I guess
>that is because the stress on the system decreases and not because it's
>faulty.

Thats because you were running an overclocked FSB, your L2 runs at a
multiple of your FSB. L2 caches are very delicate especially when
overclocked. E.g. I have a CPU (C366) which can do 600Mhz stable with the
L2 disabled and only 577 with it enabled. But losing your L2 cache slows
things _considerably_. Try running memtest86 (I believe it tests caches as
well), this definately sounds like hardware problems.

Regards,
	Zwane Mwaikambo