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From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: crashme fault
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 09:17:54 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070916091754.a2ab62a2.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070916155320.GE6708@v2.random>

On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 17:53:21 +0200 Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 10:21:51PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > I run almost-daily kernel testing.  I haven't seen 'crashme' cause a
> > kernel fault until today, and now I've seen it twice on 2.6.23-rc6-git2,
> 
> Did the room temperature change in the server room? ;) Those early

I rarely go there, but when I do, it's usually very cool.
But I have no way of tracking the room temp there.

> EM64T P4 core based are fast but they suck a whole lot of power. It
> seems a bitflip in a cpu register. You can use cpufreq to set low
> frequency (they should support it, and they shouldn't use more than
> 100w per core that way) to lower the temp, and see if the problem goes
> away. If it's a software issue it will hopefully be still reproducible
> with ~2ghz instead of 3.4ghz.


---
~Randy
*** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code ***

      reply	other threads:[~2007-09-16 16:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-13  5:21 crashme fault Randy Dunlap
2007-09-15  4:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-09-15  5:05   ` Randy Dunlap
2007-09-15  5:21     ` Randy Dunlap
2007-09-15 18:34   ` Andi Kleen
2007-09-15 18:40     ` Randy Dunlap
2007-09-15 19:44       ` Linus Torvalds
2007-09-15 19:53         ` Randy Dunlap
2007-09-15 22:15         ` Linus Torvalds
2007-09-15 22:47           ` Linus Torvalds
2007-09-15 23:47             ` Randy Dunlap
2007-09-16  0:34               ` Linus Torvalds
2007-09-16 16:40                 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-09-16 17:14                   ` Linus Torvalds
2007-09-16 18:12                     ` Linus Torvalds
2007-09-17  5:06                       ` Randy Dunlap
2007-09-17  5:28                         ` Linus Torvalds
2007-09-17 14:29                           ` Randy Dunlap
2007-09-17 14:53                             ` Linus Torvalds
2007-09-17 20:05                               ` Randy Dunlap
2007-09-16 18:28                     ` Andi Kleen
2007-09-16  3:10             ` Andi Kleen
2007-09-16 15:53 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2007-09-16 16:17   ` Randy Dunlap [this message]

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