Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Subject | Re: my dual channel DDR 400 RAM won't work on any linux distro | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 17 Apr 2003 13:45:35 +0100 |
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On Iau, 2003-04-17 at 13:46, mbs wrote: > <not flamebait, honest question> > you hear this all the time, but do we really have any empirical evidence > proving this, or is it just what we say to make ourselves feel good when > Linux won't run on hardware that works fine under other os's? > </not flamebait, honest question>
Yes, both evidence and in some cases explanation. As to the reasons quoted in the original message those are probably less true now. Linux has extremely optimised memory copiers - our AMD memory copiers broke older VIA chipsets, it took several months until photoshop and other specialist apps hit the same bug with their mmx/3dnow hand tuned effects tools on windows and VIA actually fixed it.
Linux also allocates memory in very different patterns to Windows. So a box that shows the odd crash in windows due to a memory error may show repeated crashes in Linux an vice versa
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