Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: AMD64 Machine hardlocks when using memset | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Mon, 04 Apr 2005 11:45:10 +0100 |
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On Sad, 2005-04-02 at 05:50, Robert Hancock wrote: > I'm wondering if one does a ton of these cache-bypassing stores whether > something gets hosed because of that. Not sure what that could be > though. I don't imagine the chipset is involved with any of that on the > Athlon 64 - either the CPU or RAM seems the most likely suspect to me
The glibc version is essentially the "perfect" copy function for the CPU. If you have any bus/memory problems or chipset bugs it will bite you.
Alan
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