Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 12:10:46 +0100 (CET) From: Soeren Schmidt <sos@spider.deepcore.dk> To: freebsd-current@fair-ware.com Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, "'John Hay'" <jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za> Subject: Re: cc: Internal error: Illegal instruction (program as) Message-ID: <200302241110.h1OBAkFZ037201@spider.deepcore.dk> In-Reply-To: <003c01c2dbf4$27993390$0200a8c0@howesnet>
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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
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