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From: Charles Cazabon <linux-kernel@discworld.dyndns.org>
To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: >128 MB RAM stability problems (again)
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 19:43:44 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010704194344.B1453@hal.qcc.sk.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0107050137500.4183-100000@eduard.t-online.de> <3B43C13C.16BA4709@linisoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <3B43C13C.16BA4709@linisoft.com>; from reza@linisoft.com on Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 06:22:05PM -0700

Reza Roboubi <reza@linisoft.com> wrote:
> Nobody has answered a basic concern:
> Why does Win2k work while Linux does not?

I did post a possible answer for this:  different OSes excercise the memory
subsystem very differently.  This is why a box might run (say) Win95
apparently stably, but not be able to run Linux.  The same reasoning applies
to other OSes.  I've seen this many times myself.

Charles
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Charles Cazabon                            <linux@discworld.dyndns.org>
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  reply	other threads:[~2001-07-05  1:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-07-04 20:45 >128 MB RAM stability problems (again) Ronald Bultje
2001-07-04 19:11 ` J Sloan
2001-07-04 19:20 ` Charles Cazabon
2001-07-04 19:29 ` Alan Cox
2001-07-04 19:47   ` William Scott Lockwood III
2001-07-05  3:16   ` Bill Pringlemeir
2001-07-05  6:37     ` Ragnar Hojland Espinosa
2001-07-05 15:38       ` Bill Pringlemeir
2001-07-04 19:44 ` mark
2001-07-04 20:01 ` Jeffrey W. Baker
2001-07-04 20:05 ` George Bonser
2001-07-04 22:11 ` D. Stimits
2001-07-04 23:47 ` Peter Bornemann
2001-07-05  1:22   ` Reza Roboubi
2001-07-05  1:43     ` Charles Cazabon [this message]
2001-07-05  1:58     ` George Bonser
2001-07-05 15:51 ` Don Krause
2001-07-05 17:22   ` Gary White (Network Administrator)
2001-07-05 20:45 ` Peter A. Castro
2001-07-06 17:55   ` Ronald Bultje
2001-07-09 14:24     ` Andreas Bombe
     [not found] <01Jul4.172916edt.62972@gpu.utcc.utoronto.ca>
2001-07-05  8:44 ` Ronald Bultje
2001-07-04 20:57   ` Chris Bacott
2001-07-05  7:22   ` StarTux
2001-07-05  8:40   ` Reza Roboubi
2001-07-05 10:50     ` Ronald Bultje
2001-07-05 15:41       ` Reza Roboubi
2001-07-05  9:15   ` D. Stimits
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-07-04 20:06 Alessandro Motter Ren
2001-07-04 20:16 ` George Bonser
2001-07-04 20:52 ` Ronald Bultje

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