From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 24 5:22:13 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 4A66737B401 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 05:22:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from MX1.estpak.ee (mta2.mail.neti.ee [194.126.101.111]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 197C14408A for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 05:12:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kalts@estpak.ee) Received: from kevad.internal (80-235-42-87-dsl.mus.estpak.ee [80.235.42.87]) by MX1.estpak.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BDA38881A; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 15:09:46 +0200 (EET) Received: (from vallo@localhost) by kevad.internal (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h1ODAuMl002278; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 15:10:56 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from vallo) Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 15:10:55 +0200 From: Vallo Kallaste To: Soeren Schmidt Cc: freebsd-current@fair-ware.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, "'John Hay'" Subject: Re: cc: Internal error: Illegal instruction (program as) Message-ID: <20030224131055.GA2156@kevad.internal> Reply-To: kalts@estpak.ee References: <003c01c2dbf4$27993390$0200a8c0@howesnet> <200302241110.h1OBAkFZ037201@spider.deepcore.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200302241110.h1OBAkFZ037201@spider.deepcore.dk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i-ja.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 On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 12:10:46PM +0100, Soeren Schmidt wrote: > > 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. Terry claims the problem is somewhat masked on systems using more memory and particular kernel options. Not my words and claims, but Terry's, however you can try to physically take out memory (if you have two 256MB modules) or limit it at boottime (into which I don't believe, personally, but that's my uneducated faith only). Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz Timecounter "TSC" frequency 1699953492 Hz CPU: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 1.70GHz (1699.95-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0xf13 Stepping = 3 Features=0x3febfbff real memory = 132382720 (126 MB) avail memory = 123191296 (117 MB) Initializing GEOMetry subsystem Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled VESA: v3.0, 832k memory, flags:0x1, mode table:0xc043e2e0 (1000040) VESA: Brookdale-G Graphics Chip Accelerated VGA BIOS npx0: on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface acpi0: on motherboard ACPI-0625: *** Info: GPE Block0 defined as GPE0 to GPE31 Using $PIR table, 9 entries at 0xc00f3d20 -- Vallo Kallaste To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message