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Date:      Thu, 2 Nov 1995 12:21:02 +1030 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        mprevost@ro.com (Mike R. Prevost)
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: gunzip core dumps on 2.1.0-102695-SNAP
Message-ID:  <199511020151.MAA08065@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.89.9511011954.A30349-0100000@sh1.ro.com> from "Mike R. Prevost" at Nov 1, 95 07:36:27 pm

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Mike R. Prevost stands accused of saying:
> It's on a 486 DX4-100 (AMD I think).  32 MB mem.  PCI motherboard.
> AHA-2940 SCSI.  I haven't tried disabling L2 cache anything yet.
> Seems alot of PC-UNIXes have trouble with L2 cache.  Could that help?

More accurately, a lot of L2 caches are implemented badly, and only Unixes
push hard enough to uncover these faults.  Yes, you should indeed try 
turning off _all_ caching.

> --- Mike R. Prevost

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