From: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
To: Jonathan Lundell <linux@lundell-bros.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux vs Windows temperature anomaly
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 21:40:40 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200303070041.h270efZH007209@eeyore.valparaiso.cl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 05 Mar 2003 13:52:16 -0800." <p05210507ba8c20241329@[10.2.0.101]>
Jonathan Lundell <linux@lundell-bros.com> said:
> We've been seeing a curious phenomenon on some PIII/ServerWorks
> CNB30-LE systems.
>
> The systems fail at relatively low temperatures. While the failures
> are not specifically memory related (ECC errors are never a factor),
> we have a memory test that's pretty good at triggering them. Data is
> apparently getting corrupted on the front-side bus.
>
> Here's the curious thing: when we run the same memory test on a
> Windows 2000 system (same hardware; we just swap the disk), we can
> run the ambient temperature up to 60C with no problem at all; the
> test will run for days. (It occurred to us to try Win2K because the
> hardware vendor was using it to test systems at temperature without
> seeing problems.)
>
> Swap in the Linux disk, and at that temperature it'll barely run at
> all. The memory test fails quickly at 40C ambient.
Linux gives the hardware a _much_ harder workout than Windows.
My first PC was a P/100, overclocked to /120. WinNT worked fine, Linux
wouldn't even finish booting.
--
Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org
Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431
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2003-02-27 18:42 ` SWSUSP Discontiguous pagedirs Nigel Cunningham
2003-03-01 4:22 ` SWSUSP Discontiguous pagedir patch Nigel Cunningham
2003-03-02 23:55 ` Patrick Mochel
2003-03-03 2:06 ` Nigel Cunningham
2003-03-03 2:31 ` Nigel Cunningham
2003-03-03 12:30 ` Pavel Machek
2003-03-04 20:36 ` Patrick Mochel
2003-03-05 20:50 ` Pavel Machek
2003-03-05 21:52 ` Linux vs Windows temperature anomaly Jonathan Lundell
2003-03-05 23:11 ` Herman Oosthuysen
2003-03-05 23:38 ` Con Kolivas
2003-03-05 23:50 ` Russell King
2003-03-06 0:29 ` Ed Sweetman
2003-03-06 0:47 ` Trever L. Adams
2003-03-06 9:45 ` Russell King
2003-03-06 1:58 ` Jonathan Lundell
2003-03-06 7:18 ` Corvus Corax
2003-03-06 7:57 ` Ed Sweetman
2003-03-06 8:18 ` Corvus Corax
2003-03-06 8:58 ` Ed Sweetman
2003-03-06 15:41 ` Jesse Pollard
2003-03-06 14:27 ` Jesse Pollard
2003-03-06 2:57 ` David Rees
2003-03-06 6:12 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2003-03-06 16:07 ` Jonathan Lundell
2003-03-07 0:40 ` Horst von Brand [this message]
2003-03-05 18:02 ` SWSUSP Discontiguous pagedir patch Pavel Machek
2003-03-07 17:14 ` Patrick Mochel
2003-03-07 20:27 ` Pavel Machek
2003-03-09 19:39 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-03-09 20:12 ` Pavel Machek
2003-03-10 16:49 ` Patrick Mochel
2003-03-10 19:23 ` Pavel Machek
2003-03-10 19:05 ` Patrick Mochel
2003-03-10 22:17 ` Nigel Cunningham
2003-03-10 23:20 ` Pavel Machek
2003-03-07 20:36 ` Pavel Machek
2003-03-10 16:51 ` Patrick Mochel
2003-03-10 19:12 ` Pavel Machek
2003-03-10 18:59 ` Patrick Mochel
2003-03-07 20:41 ` Pavel Machek
2003-03-06 17:29 Linux vs Windows temperature anomaly Ed Vance
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