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 -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" -Terry Lambert UNIX: live FreeBSD or die! [[
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