Re: P-III Oddity.

[Dave Jones]

On Sat, 7 Apr 2001, Rogier Wolff wrote:

> One machine regularly crashes.
> Linux version 2.2.16-3 ([e-mail]) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #1 Mon Jun 19 19:11:44 EDT 2000

Probably unrelated to the issue below. Try a more recent 2.2 ?

> cpuid level     : 2

CPU serial number disabled.

> cpuid level     : 3

CPU serial number enabled.

You should be able to confirm this with my x86info tool.
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/davej/x86info/x86info-1.0.tgz

If this isn't the case, can you send me the output of
x86info -a on both CPUs ?

Note, that 2.4 should be disabling the serial number by
default.
(Unless you booted with the `serialnumber' bootarg.)

regards,

Dave.