Bad news. I just tried the 7.04 and it still segfaults on my dual 9.2 box. Works fine on the single Opteron though. If the bench can be compared to 7.01, the ode went from .2885 to .1616! Everything else was about the same. Didn't look at the video scores. Joe Bjorn Tore Sund wrote:
SP1 works fine for me as well on SuSE 9.1. Since I've only just started migrating to 9.2 I hadn't noticed, but it segfaults there. Even with -novjm and -nosplash. Fujitsu Siemens desktop with AMD 64 3200+, SuSE 9.2 Pro and 2.6.8-24.11-default.
I've been comparing strace outputs on SuSE 9.1 on Opteron, SuSE 9.2 on Athlon 32 (both work fine) and SuSE 9.2 on AMD64 (which segfaults). The latter strace output is _littered_ with gettimeofday() and time() calls which aren't in the other two outputs.
Googling reported something similar on RHEL 3, where it was a kernel bug. Neither acpi=off nor various perturbations of clock= (tried tsc, pmtmr, and pit) had any effect.
Matlab R14 SP2 is out, I'll have to give that a try to see if it solves the problem - I'm just glad I found out before I went into production with 9.2 on my desktop machines. Thanks Joe.
Bjørn