fred smith wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 10:53:14AM -0600, Lucas wrote: > > This did the trick. I didn't try it previously because I have a duron, but > > I guess Red Hat also installs the Athlon kernel on Durons. > >
>From what I could gather from the buzilla report was that there are issues with the way some of the VIA chipsets ar optimized. The Athlon specific code in the kernel uses a very fast memory IO routine that can cause the bus bandwidth to be exceeded. Apparently there is a chipset setting that the kernel guys have found that helps this but since it is undocumented there is no way of knowing if it is dangerous to your data or not. They are talking to AMD about it. I read it as this, you can take it for what it is worth. It may be totally bogus. <opinion> A machine that is going to use windows can crank up the operation of the bus since windows is not going to take advantage of the athlon/duron fat memory pipe. If, on the other hand the os does try to take advantage of this pipe by optimizing these low level operations it can hit the wall. It happens at different times depending on what is going on in the machine at the time. </opinion> I found this on my new sony laptop (duron 900) Bret _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
