What could the problem be?

[Joshua Kramer]

On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 robb at bossleyfamily.com wrote:

> Just to give an update.  It does appear to be something that is going
> wrong with the processor, motherboard, or hard drive setup.  I was able to

Does this setup work reliably with the 2.4 kernel?  Can you compile stuff 
on it without doing segfaults?

A loooooooooooooong time ago I bought myself a spankin' new motherboard
with an AMD K6-2/350 and 96MB of RAM.  *most* things worked great as
usual, but my mouse cursor in X left artifacts and I couldn't compile
anything without getting a segfault.  So, I started playing with the cache
settings and pipeline settings, and if I disabled the external cache,
things worked flawlessly without too much of a performance hit.  Re-enable 
the cache and I got the errors.

Perhaps the 2.6 kernel doesn't like the timing of your motherboard, or 
maybe there's some flaky hardware.  Try to de-tune the timing a bit or 
even underclock the processor to see if the errors go away.

--Josh