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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next prev parent 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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