From owner-freebsd-current Sun Apr 21 13:37:49 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA05554 for current-outgoing; Sun, 21 Apr 1996 13:37:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA05510 for ; Sun, 21 Apr 1996 13:37:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id WAA26392 for ; Sun, 21 Apr 1996 22:37:38 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id WAA00304 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 21 Apr 1996 22:37:38 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id VAA15228 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 21 Apr 1996 21:33:27 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199604211933.VAA15228@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: gzipped executables To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Sun, 21 Apr 1996 21:33:27 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199604192030.NAA08890@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Apr 19, 96 01:30:31 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Terry Lambert wrote: > > If this is the case, why did it used to work on Pentium processors? > > Because it's circumstantial based on where the code is loaded -- and now > it's loaded at a new place and you see the problem -- an optimized loop > is wholly in cache. > > I'm suprised, given the size of the cache, that it worked at all > on Pentium boxes, ever. It even breaks on a 386sx/16 now, and i would be really surprised to learn that this one has suddenly grown cache memory. :-) Nope, Terry, your point explained some rare cases where people couldn't boot zipped kernels unless they turned off their caches, but for the zipped binaries: try again. -- 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. ;-)