From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 6 13:23:07 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id NAA29514 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 6 Jan 1997 13:23:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id NAA29506 for ; Mon, 6 Jan 1997 13:23:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id WAA16799; Mon, 6 Jan 1997 22:22:54 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id WAA04462; Mon, 6 Jan 1997 22:22:53 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.4/8.6.9) id VAA05079; Mon, 6 Jan 1997 21:58:53 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997 21:58:53 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: fisco.dev@sul.com.br (Paulo Cesar Pereira de Andrade) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: sig-11 plague References: <32D0F453.2781E494@sul.com.br> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <32D0F453.2781E494@sul.com.br>; from Paulo Cesar Pereira de Andrade on Jan 6, 1997 12:47:15 +0000 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Paulo Cesar Pereira de Andrade wrote: (sig 11 plague) > I resolved the problem in the BIOS setup, i disabled the external > cache, and now cc1 does not fail. ... > I have now a doubt: is this a feature of pci or is a todo in > FreeBSD (perhaps a done, since im using 2.1.0) or is i that have a not > good hardware or another thing ? It's bad hardware, very clearly in your case (since turning off the external cache worked). You don't describe your disk controller, but if it's a SCSI busmaster controller, it might help to enable the external cache but operate it in `write-through' mode. This doesn't lose much performance (unlike turning it off totally). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)