On Tuesday 04 March 2008 00:33, Per Jessen wrote:
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It's a quad-core machine, so it should be possible to run four copies of mprime concurrently without it falling over.
Correction: It should be possible to run as many copies as available RAM + swap can accommodate!
Latest update - it was suggested I install 10.3, then upgrade to the latest kernel. Which has very surprisingly had the effect that I can now run one copy of mprime a lot longer than before. I had one copy running almost eight hours last night.
We're entering the era of concurrency bugs because of the widespread availability of multi-core processors. But most people thought it was going to be application code that exhibited those bugs and that the very high standards of kernel programming would ensure that deadlocks or other concurrency errors would be rare and quickly fixed in operating system kernels and nuclei.
I asked AMD for a CPU diagnostic tool, but they can only supply something for Windows.
Dastards!
/Per Jessen, Zürich
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