Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com wrote :
> 
> 
> >   I then removed the option CYRIX_CACHE_REALLY_WORKS form my kernel, so that 
> the
> >That doesn't surprise me at all.  There's a good reason that option is
> >not documented anywhere.
> 
> To elaborate: that option is intended for people who have motherboards
> (1) designed *specifically* for DLC-type chips, and (2) which have
> *correct* and *complete* bus-mastering and cache-coherency support in
> the hardware.  If you don't have these, chances are your cache doesn't
> "REALLY_WORK", and you shouldn't have that enabled.
> 

What is interesting, is that my M/B worked fine for some time like this even 
building some large source trees and while under heavy load with X running.
I only picked up a problem when building a comprehensive GENERIC kernel for
a new installation... Strange. But now I can sleep better knowing what the
problem was.

Thanks...

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