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Date:      12 Dec 2002 14:20:03 -0800
From:      John Merryweather Cooper <john_m_cooper@yahoo.com>
To:        Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
Cc:        James Pole <james.pole@paradise.net.nz>, "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Repeatable crash from nautilus2
Message-ID:  <1039731603.850.1.camel@pc016247.reshall.uidaho.edu>
In-Reply-To: <1039725463.2413.64.camel@gyros>
References:  <20021211135451.G83245-100000@fubar.adept.org> <1039662104.233.7.camel@localhost> <20021212145509.GA13791@madman.nectar.cc> <1039710116.2413.8.camel@gyros> <20021212172708.GA28530@madman.nectar.cc> <1039724894.235.9.camel@localhost>  <1039725463.2413.64.camel@gyros>

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On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 12:37, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 15:28, James Pole wrote:
> > On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 06:27, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote:
> > > On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 11:21:56AM -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > > > For me, I use no CPUTYPE.  I accept the OS's default optimizations, and
> > > > Nautilus 2 works fine for me on -STABLE and -CURRENT.  Of course, with
> > > > -CURRENT, I had to rebuild all my ports recently after the compiler
> > > > upgrades.
> > > 
> > > But it does not work on my dual Athlon, with CPUTYPE=k7, nor without
> > > CPUTYPE setting.  Everything built today.
> > 
> > Have you rebuilt everything, including the world? 
> > 
> > Just a wild guess, could it be a problem specific to AMD's Athlon
> > processors? I havn't, so far, seen anyone with Intel processors report
> > this bug -- or maybe I'm just imagining it.
> 
> You're not imagining it.  There could be a threading issue with
> Athalons.  All my machines are Intel, and so far, only AMD users have
> reported these problems.
> 

Is there a simple delay loop in the threading somewhere?  AMD processors
have been known to optimize such loops out since at least the K6.

> Joe
> 
> > 
> > - James
> > 
> > 
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John Merryweather Cooper <john_m_cooper@yahoo.com>
University of Idaho


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