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Date:      Mon, 20 Oct 2003 12:15:01 -0400
From:      Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
To:        Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk>, stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Expert input required: P4 odd signals, no apparent memory fault,  DISABLE_PSE?
Message-ID:  <6.0.0.22.0.20031020121053.07e575c0@209.112.4.2>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0310201625170.1903@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk>
References:  <Pine.GSO.4.58.0310201625170.1903@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk>

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How recent is your copy of RELENG_4 ?  The PSE disable code was committed 
to the tree already as well as a fix so it would work with APM on the 
17th.  By default it is disabled.  If you look at your dmesg.boot you 
should see
Warning: Pentium 4 CPU: PSE disabled

         ---Mike

At 11:38 AM 20/10/2003, Jan Grant wrote:
>I'm tracking -STABLE on a 1.8GHz P4 with 512MB of memory. Roughly since
>the PAE changes were MFCed, I've been seeing memory-corruption-related
>errors under specific circumstances: for example, a run of
>         portsdb -fUu
>can be guaranteed to generate SIGBUS, SIGILL and SIGSEGVs in a handful
>of sh, sed, etc. processes.



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