Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997 15:53:12 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: fisco.dev@sul.com.br, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sig-11 plague Message-ID: <199701062253.PAA12858@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <Mutt.19970106215853.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Jan 6, 97 09:58:53 pm
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> As Paulo Cesar Pereira de Andrade wrote:
>
> (sig 11 plague)
>
> > I resolved the problem in the BIOS setup, i disabled the external
> > cache, and now cc1 does not fail. ...
>
> > I have now a doubt: is this a feature of pci or is a todo in
> > FreeBSD (perhaps a done, since im using 2.1.0) or is i that have a not
> > good hardware or another thing ?
>
> It's bad hardware, very clearly in your case (since turning off the
> external cache worked). You don't describe your disk controller, but
> if it's a SCSI busmaster controller, it might help to enable the
> external cache but operate it in `write-through' mode. This doesn't
> lose much performance (unlike turning it off totally).
Alternately, if it's a VLB controller, move it to the outside slot,
since you must put bus mastering VLB devices in "master" slots ("slave"
slots do not do cache updates).
Probably we could give you a better answer if you would tell us your
hardware (like Joerg suggested).
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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