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Subject: Re: Signal 11
To: dwmw2@infradead.org (David Woodhouse)
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 14:06:45 +0000 (GMT)
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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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> > wrong with it.  I've only seen this under 2.3.x/2.4 SMP kernels.  I
> > would say that this is definitely a kernel problem.=20
> 
> XFree86 3.9 and XFree86 4 were rock solid for a _long_ time on 2.[34]
> kernels - even on my BP6=B9. The random crashes started to happen when =
> I
> upgraded my distribution=B2 - and are only seen by people using 2.4. So=
>  I
> suspect that it's the combination of glibc and kernel which is triggeri=
> ng
> it.

Have any of the folks seeing it checked if Ben LaHaise's fixes for the page
table updating race help ?

Alan

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