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Alan Cox wrote:

> We know it happens on some boards that apparently cant keep up. We dont know
> why, there is no time estimate for a cure. That unfortunately is about it

FWIW (qualitative data point), my EPoX system with the VIA chipset seems to run a
few *hours* without an oops when I boot a PIII kernel and run it with X, but a few
*days* on the same kernel when I don't start X.

Sometimes it barfs early even without X, but there seems to be a significant
difference in the expected uptime between using X and not using X.

Bobby Bryant
Austin, Texas