This is surely a huge bug.. I wonder why they haven't done anything to it. I think that nowadays there must enough dual processor machines around that the SMP bug should be their top priority. My Dual Celeron crashes every few minutes. And is very far from being usable. Even during writing this message Mozilla M13 crashed twice before I changed to Netscape and made it happen.
They should buy dual machines to all people writing multithreaded code so that these things would be noticed at much earlier stage!
Actually I have one AMD5x86-133 MHz, which is in reality just a 486 with a multiplier of 4, overclocked to 160MHz (=4*40). It has been running nicely at that speed for couple of years with a small cooling plate and fan. Sometimes I have to try how it would react, if I try to run it at 200MHz (4*50). Probably won't boot, but what the heck, it would be the fastest 486 on the planet!.. Or has someone already got more?
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This is surely a huge bug.. I wonder why they
haven't done anything to it. I think that nowadays there must enough dual processor machines around that the SMP bug should be their top priority. My Dual Celeron crashes every few minutes. And is very far from being usable. Even during writing this message Mozilla M13 crashed twice before I changed to Netscape and made it happen.
They should buy dual machines to all people writing multithreaded code so that these things would be noticed at much earlier stage!
Actually I have one AMD5x86-133 MHz, which is in reality just a 486 with a multiplier of 4, overclocked to 160MHz (=4*40). It has been running nicely at that speed for couple of years with a small cooling plate and fan. Sometimes I have to try how it would react, if I try to run it at 200MHz (4*50). Probably won't boot, but what the heck, it would be the fastest 486 on the planet! .. Or has someone already got more?