Want uni-processor kernel on FC5 x86_64

[Harald Grossauer]

Jay Cliburn schrieb:
> Harald Grossauer wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> since the upgrade to FC5.x86_64 (from FC3.x86_64) Thunderbird 
>> sometimes locks up when downloading large emails (not always 
>> reproducible), Firefox frequently hangs (irreproducibly) without 
>> apparent reason. Starting both programs with "strace -f ..." shows 
>> that the last system call before lockups are futex syscalls. So I 
>> thought there might be some race condition? Maybe it has to do with 
>> the SMP kernel used by default in 64bit FC5? Is there a way to get a 
>> "FC5.x86_64-standard kernel" without SMP?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Harald
>>
>
> Similar symptoms for me -- including occasional core dumps on 
> thunderbird startup (and other odd behavior) -- turned out to be a bad 
> DIMM.  It failed memtest86 repeatedly.
Checked that for my computer too. memtest did not report any errors 
after running for three days consecutively.