[CentOS] data corruption on AMD AM2 systems with 4GB of RAM or more

Thu May 31 00:10:59 UTC 2007
Dan Halbert <halbert at bbn.com>

Florin Andrei wrote:
>
> Is the bug still triggered if the system is running the 32 bit OS 
> instead of 64 bit?
>
Kernel bug 7768 is an x86_64 bug and has only been reported as such. I 
did not see it on 32 bit Centos. I saw bad floating-point answers under 
load (!), which were fixed by booting with noapic on our motherboards. 
(I've already written about that on this list, a few months ago.)