From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 1 17:49:37 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id RAA05689 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 1 Nov 1995 17:49:37 -0800 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id RAA05683 for ; Wed, 1 Nov 1995 17:49:33 -0800 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id MAA08065; Thu, 2 Nov 1995 12:21:04 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199511020151.MAA08065@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: gunzip core dumps on 2.1.0-102695-SNAP To: mprevost@ro.com (Mike R. Prevost) Date: Thu, 2 Nov 1995 12:21:02 +1030 (CST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Mike R. Prevost" at Nov 1, 95 07:36:27 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 827 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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! [[