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Date:      Sat, 10 May 2003 00:16:20 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Don Lewis <truckman@FreeBSD.org>
To:        tlambert2@mindspring.com
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: data corruption with current (maybe sis chipset related?)
Message-ID:  <200305100716.h4A7GKM7039645@gw.catspoiler.org>
In-Reply-To: <3EBC90B9.FE54107F@mindspring.com>

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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.



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