Hi, > total bogomips : 1497.99 > zero pages : total: 0 (0Kb) current: 0 (0Kb) hits: 0/0 (0%) > machine : CHRP IBM,7026-B80 Sure, for a few weeks we had a quad cpu B80 running debian. You will have the cacheline size problem I mentioned before (memset( , 0, ) uses dcbz). We hacked the debian install ramdisk to work around this. Perhaps the easiest thing to do is to recompile libc without the memset optimisation. Anton