Re: Want uni-processor kernel on FC5 x86_64

[Harald Grossauer <harald.grossauer@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Jay Cliburn schrieb:
> Harald Grossauer wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > since the upgrade to FC5.x86_64 (from FC3.x86_64) Thunderbird 
> > sometimes locks up when downloading large emails (not always 
> > reproducible), Firefox frequently hangs (irreproducibly) without 
> > apparent reason. Starting both programs with "strace -f ..." shows 
> > that the last system call before lockups are futex syscalls. So I 
> > thought there might be some race condition? Maybe it has to do with 
> > the SMP kernel used by default in 64bit FC5? Is there a way to get a 
> > "FC5.x86_64-standard kernel" without SMP?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Harald
>
> Similar symptoms for me -- including occasional core dumps on 
> thunderbird startup (and other odd behavior) -- turned out to be a bad 
> DIMM.  It failed memtest86 repeatedly.
Checked that for my computer too. memtest did not report any errors 
after running for three days consecutively.