Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 00:47:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Brian Timothy HERLIHY <btherl@students.cs.mu.oz.au> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: lockups, reboots Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970801004624.11381G-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <199707301737.DAA15081@cat.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
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On Thu, 31 Jul 1997, Brian Timothy HERLIHY wrote: > Last night I installed FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE onto my amd 486 dx4/100, and some > very odd things have been happening. Firstly, the boot disk for installation > would not boot until I switched the cpu cache off. Once all was installed, > things seemed to be working until I tried to compile cfs (crypto file system). > The system locked solid; this is reproducible. Also, while transferring files > via ftp over slip, it rebooted about 1 hour ago. (cpu cache was on) Hm, your CPU cache module may be corrupted. Do you get signal 11's (Segmentation fault) randomly, esp. during heavy activity? > Is this something to do with using 2.2.2-RELEASE, or is it more likely to be > my particular system? I am now deciding whether to install linux or a more > stable freeBSD on the system (I already have two linux 2.0.30, very reliable, > never crash unless I do something dumb :) I can't tell. FreeBSD may tickle something that Linux doesn't. > Or are there any bios settings I should tweak? Switching off cpu cache halves > the speed, so that's not very good :( Are you overclocking your CPU? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo
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