Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 05 Apr 2005 22:05:19 -0600 | From | Robert Hancock <> | Subject | Re: AMD64 Machine hardlocks when using memset |
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Alan Cox wrote: > 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.
Anyone have any suggestions on how to track this further? It seems fairly clear what circumstances are causing it, but as for figuring out what's at fault..
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