On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 5:30 PM, Vishal Rao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I remember many years ago of people on the Internet with the same
> story. The thing back then is that Linux+GCC "stress" and utilise RAM
> much more "efficiently" thereby almost always touching all bits and
> triggering the problem. I'm guessing you have Windows XP and if you
> tried Vista you might get the same problem due to things like ASLR
> (Address Space Layout Randomisation) and what not.
>
> Ah, just Googled and found this link:
> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/faqs/GCC-SIG11-FAQ
>
> Snippet from the link:
>
> " QUESTION
>
> Nothing crashes on NT, Windows 95, OS/2 or DOS. It must be something
> Linux specific.
>
> ANSWER
>
> First of all, Linux stresses your hardware more than all of the above.
> Some OSes like the Microsoft ones named above crash in unpredictable
> ways anyway. Nobody is going to call Microsoft and say "hey, my
> windows box crashed today". If you do anyway, they will tell you that
> you, the user, made an error (see the interview with Bill Gates in a
> German magazine) and that since it works now, you should shut up.
> Those OSes are also somewhat more "predictable" than Linux. This means
> that Excel might always be loaded in the exact same memory area.
> Therefore when the bit-error occurs, it is always excel that gets it.
> Excel will crash. Or excel will crash another application. Anyway, it
> will seem to be a single application that fails, and not related to
> memory.
> What I am sure of is that a cleanly installed Linux system should be
> able to compile the kernel without any errors. Certainly no sig-11
> ones. (** Exception: Red Hat 5.0 with a Cyrix processor. See
> elsewhere. **)
> Really Linux and gcc stress your hardware more than other OSes. If you
> need a non-linux thingy that stresses your hardware to the point of
> crashing, you can try winstone. -- Jonathan Bright
> ([EMAIL PROTECTED])"
>
Wow Vishal thanks for the link. While i agree about the different
resource-usage policies of the two kernels, does it warrant an order
of magnitude difference in stability under the circumstances.
Anyways, mine is a laptop, and i'll see if i can atleast refit the
ram. Maybe a loose connection/dust somewhere?
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