Date: Tue, 21 Mar 1995 13:47:20 GMT From: Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> To: Nate Williams <nate@sneezy.sri.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: NMI Error success story Message-ID: <199503211347.NAA04769@deacon.cogsci.ed.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: Nate Williams's message of Sat, 18 Mar 1995 23:31:35 -0700
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My home machine is a 386DX33 with an EISA bus, about 5 years old now. Since the first release of 386BSD I've had problems with it getting NMIs and then panicing, apparently during heavy disk (IDE) i/o (often during fsck). The problem vanishes completely if I remove the "halt" instruction from the idle loop (incidentally, this means I had no problem with NetBSD 1.0, which doesn't use the halt instruction). I don't understand why this is, but it's something that others having a similar problem might try. -- Richard
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