From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 10 00:16:30 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DAE937B401 for ; Sat, 10 May 2003 00:16:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gw.catspoiler.org (217-ip-163.nccn.net [209.79.217.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D460B43FEC for ; Sat, 10 May 2003 00:16:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from truckman@FreeBSD.org) Received: from FreeBSD.org (mousie.catspoiler.org [192.168.101.2]) by gw.catspoiler.org (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h4A7GKM7039645; Sat, 10 May 2003 00:16:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from truckman@FreeBSD.org) Message-Id: <200305100716.h4A7GKM7039645@gw.catspoiler.org> Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 00:16:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Don Lewis To: tlambert2@mindspring.com In-Reply-To: <3EBC90B9.FE54107F@mindspring.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: data corruption with current (maybe sis chipset related?) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 07:16:30 -0000 On 9 May, Terry Lambert wrote: > Don Lewis wrote: >> On 9 May, Mark Santcroos wrote: >> > On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 08:33:35AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: >> >> I'd love more details as I've *NEVER* found a problem running FreeBSD on >> >> Athlon systems nor has anyone else I know. Please provide more detail >> >> about the Athlon issue. >> > >> > This thread is all about AMD. >> >> This problem afflicts both my PII and Athlon machines. > > Thanks for the report on the PII; I suspected it would have > the same problem, but I had not been able to verify it. I'm not at all suprised about the similarity. I still remember the User Friendly cartoon of the Intel assembly line that showed someone was painting an extra 'I' on the CPU module. > At a guess, I will say you have taken all the extraneous > stuff you could out of your kernel, and are running with 256M+ > of memory. 8-). Actually the kernel is GENERIC+DDB+USER_LDT. Yeah, I never saw the problem until I upgraded from 128 MB to 384 MB of RAM. But then I also didn't see it until I tried to build the openoffice port.