On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 12:44:48PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > I am a huge fan of AMD, not only because their processors are > cheaper. > > Recently, however, I have experienced random crashes on two machines > that run AMDs. The crashes seem to be related to IO and happen > usually when there is a lot of disk activity. The disks themselves
Any common software activity (at the time of crashing) between the two machines that might be the cause? (No one seems to be asking about the software ;) > are fine, though, and also the controller appears without problems. > > Thus I am logically considering chipset and processor. I can hardly > imagine that this is a problem with AMD, but I would like to know > from you success and failure stories of AMD processors and Linux. I have been very happy with them. Actually, the only CPU issue I have run into was with an (AMD 5x86 or IBM/Cyrix 686) that would sometimes crash when Netscape was running (turned out to be overheating with CPU usage because the fan was not working properly). CPU is still going after fixing the fan. > > Thanks, > > -- > Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! > > .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > : :' : proud Debian developer, admin, and user > `. `'` > `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system > > Invalid/expired PGP subkeys? Use subkeys.pgp.net as keyserver! -- Chris Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ------------------------------------------- GNU/Linux --- The best things in life are free. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
