From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 24 3:10:54 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3653737B401 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 03:10:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from spider.deepcore.dk (cpe.atm2-0-56339.0x50c6aa0a.abnxx2.customer.tele.dk [80.198.170.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7112043F85 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 03:10:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sos@spider.deepcore.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by spider.deepcore.dk (8.12.5/8.12.6) id h1OBAkFZ037201; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 12:10:46 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from sos) From: Soeren Schmidt Message-Id: <200302241110.h1OBAkFZ037201@spider.deepcore.dk> Subject: Re: cc: Internal error: Illegal instruction (program as) In-Reply-To: <003c01c2dbf4$27993390$0200a8c0@howesnet> To: freebsd-current@fair-ware.com Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 12:10:46 +0100 (CET) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, "'John Hay'" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL98b (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It seems Paul A. Howes wrote: > > All; > > These two kernel options seem to have solved the problem. Builds now > run smoothly and error-free. I read the comments in NOTES about these > options and something clicked: I recall that most Pentium processors > will only deal with 4 kB pages. Aren't 4 MB pages a feature of the Xeon > processor, as it can address much more memory? > > If that is the case, then these options should be the default, and their > inverse provided in the kernel configuration file (ENABLE_PSE & > ENABLE_PG_G). Just for the record but my P4@2400/533 512MB/DDR does *not* show this problem no matter how hard I beat it. -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message