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Re: Floats

• Posted by Irv Mullins <irv at ELLIJAY.COM> Oct 03, 1999
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On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, David Cuny wrote:
>
> I haven't had a chance to test this under Linux, because my file system got
> trashed three times last night, forcing a reload each time. The final straw
> was when the system rebooted because of an error while *compiling* code (no,
> I wasn't running as root) and hosed X Windows. [insert Very Unhappy Camper
> noises].

Dave:

There must be a serious problem with your installation. There's just no way
that a runaway program - especially a compiler - could cause a reboot.
Worst case would be a seemingly hung computer, where some process was
gobbling up 99% of the cpu time. Even in that case, eventually you
should be able to kill the job from the console.

I had problems like this when using Mandrake Linux - I think it was compiled
specifically for Pentiums, and didn't really like the Cyrix chip.

Regards,
Irv