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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: Brian Timothy HERLIHY <btherl@students.cs.mu.oz.au>
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Subject: Re: lockups, reboots
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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?

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