Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2002 15:46:43 -0800 From: walt <wa1ter@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sound familiar? 5.0-RC hangs on dual athlon Message-ID: <3DF3D9E3.8070009@hotmail.com> References: <at0lcn$va5$1@FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Jacques A. Vidrine wrote: > Hello All, > > I finally managed to put some time aside to redo my main > development/desktop machine to run FreeBSD 5.0. (I've been running > 5.x on my laptop for some months.) I had to retreat back to 4.7 > because I could not get through some simple tasks without the system > hanging. The system is a dual Athlon box with 1 GB RAM. The dmesg > output is below. > > At first the system hung while I was building GNOME 2.0 and restoring > some files from tape. It wasn't _completely_ hung: I could switch > VTYs, and enter new commands (though it might take tens of seconds to > echo my typing... I seem to remember something similar from a few months ago that affected machines with lots of RAM because of something to do with high order address bits. I thought it got fixed, but I can't really recall. Was it an Athlon problem, or a gcc problem, or both? Hmpf, can't remember! Anyone else think this might be the same thing? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?3DF3D9E3.8070009>