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From: Vipul Ved Prakash <vipul@shell2.ba.best.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] Pentium F00F bug?
Date: Mon,  9 Oct 2000 09:05:45 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrn8u1s11.2hf.vipul@shell2.ba.best.com> (raw)

Hi,

I recently installed plan9 on a Pentium 75 Mhz machine, w/ 64 Mb RAM, Cirrus
Logic CLGD-5430 (pci) video card and Intel EtherExpress Pro/100B ethernet
adapter.  I had to explicitly limit memory size with *maxmem statement in
plan9.ini and add a lib/vgadb entry for rio.  Otherwise, the installation
proceeded normally.

I have been playing around with this box with much gusto.  However, every
once in a while, it freezes and has to be power-cycled.  I have noticed this
happens when there is sustained network activity for a few hours, like a
remote ping.  I am not sure if there is a co-relation though, as this might
have to do with the F00F bug in the Pentium processor on this machine.  At
the moment, I don't have spare hardware to isolate the problem, so I am
hoping someone here can help me debug it.

best regards,
vipul.



             reply	other threads:[~2000-10-09  9:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-10-09  9:05 Vipul Ved Prakash [this message]
2000-10-09 10:32 forsyth
2000-10-09 16:20 jmk
2000-10-16  8:44 ` Vipul Ved Prakash

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