From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 22:31:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 22:30:56 -0500 Received: from sgigate.SGI.COM ([204.94.209.1]:25335 "EHLO gate-sgigate.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 22:30:52 -0500 Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 06:31:10 -0200 From: Ralf Baechle To: mkloppstech@freenet.de Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: oops, signal 11 Message-ID: <20010122063110.C1052@bacchus.dhis.org> In-Reply-To: <200101201246.NAA15788@john.epistle> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200101201246.NAA15788@john.epistle>; from mkloppstech@freenet.de on Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 01:46:50PM +0100 X-Accept-Language: de,en,fr Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 01:46:50PM +0100, mkloppstech@freenet.de wrote: > I know that signal 11 with gcc is a sign of bad hardware; however it > strikes me that I don't get random oopses - a whole bunch of them is appended. The compiler tends to hammer harder on the memory than the kernel; this is a sign of the great effort which was taken to optimize the kernel's cache usage. Ralf - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/