On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Rich C wrote: => =>----- Original Message ----- =>From: "Michael Costolo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> =>To: "GNHLUG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> =>Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 9:43 PM =>Subject: Re: Anybody running 2.4 and AMD??? => => =>> Hmm. I'm running a 1 GHz Athlon with kernel version 2.4.3 (a la Mandrake =>> 8.0) and a 32 MB NVidia TNT2 AGP video card (and XFree 4.0.3 if it =>matters) =>> on an ABIT KT7A-RAID mobo with 512 MB RAM. I have not experienced any =>random =>> lockups. I know nothing about the stock Mandrake kernel and haven't tried =>> "rolling my own" yet (but I will, once I learn more about the process). =>> => =>You don't need to recompile to avoid the bug. From the article: => =>"Fortunately, there is a quick and easy fix for this problem. If you have =>been experiencing lockups on your Athlon, Duron or Athlon MP system when =>using AGP video, try passing the mem=nopentium option to your kernel (using =>GRUB or LILO) at boot-time. This tells Linux to go back to using 4K pages, =>avoiding this CPU bug." OK. I'm confused here. Is it that case that in certain circumstances the linux kernel will try to make a pagesize equal to 4 MEGABYTES and this patch restores it back down to 4 KILOBYTES? Everything I know about OS's says that something is badly out of whack.
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