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Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2000 13:01:42 -0600
From: Matthew Vanecek <linux4us@home.com>
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Subject: Re: Signal 11
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Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> > > 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

Where are his fixes at?  I don't seem to see any of his posts in the
archives.
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Matthew Vanecek
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