Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 14:36:44 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth <shocking@prth.pgs.com>, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: K6 & PPro specific instructions Message-ID: <19980521143644.X22701@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199805210400.MAA20186@ariadne.tensor.pgs.com>; from Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth on Thu, May 21, 1998 at 12:00:47PM %2B0800 References: <199805210400.MAA20186@ariadne.tensor.pgs.com>
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On Thu, 21 May 1998 at 12:00:47 +0800, Stephen Hocking-Seni wrote: > > I'm a little unclear on this - my K6 reports itself as a 586 class CPU under > FreeBSD, but I was wondering if it implemented some of the PPro specific > instructions/features. I haven't investigated. > I'm quite happy with it - it's a K6-233, does a make buildworld in 1hr 20m > (NOTCL, but with profiled libs, /usr/src mounted noatime, /usr/obj async, > 48Mb, 512k cache, 2 SCSI drives hanging off an NCR-875). My old CPU (P5-120) > did a make world in 3hrs. > > Oddly enough, where I used to have occasional hangs and crashes (which seemed > hardware related, for a long time I was blaming the memory) it's now solid as > a rock. I have a K6/233 as well. I had a lot of difficulty of this nature when I first got it. I did some temperature measurements and found that the problems were related to overheating (when the processor surface reached about 63°). Finally I got a large enough fan, and the problems went away. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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