On Monday 24 June 2002 22:20, Pierre Abbat wrote: > I got a new laptop a few weeks ago. I promptly loaded Linux on it and ran > into hardware problems. I copied statically linked mprime to it and ran it; > it crashed in a few minutes. I sent it back. > > The technician knows nothing about Linux. He loaded Windows and ran some > test, which found nothing. I told him about mprime, so he loaded Prime95 on > it and ran it for at least a day with no errors. > > The processor is an Athlon. The kernel I ran on it was 2.4.17 from a > Sourcemage install. Is there any problem with that version?
Not so far as I know. (I tend to use stock Red Hat images) However there is a major difference in the way in which Windows & linux allocate memory. Windows from the top, linux from the bottom. If you have significantly more memory than the minimum required (which is probably only around 32 MBytes) then mprime may be crashing because it's hitting bad memory, which Windows is not using. Try running memtest86 or MEMT25. Regards Brian Beesley _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
