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From: Anthony Hill <ahill@netspace.net.au>
To: Tom Samplonius <tom@uniserve.com>
cc: Jan Isley <jan@bagend.atl.ga.us>, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: keyboard locks up 950622-SNAP
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> 
> On Sun, 25 Jun 1995, Jan Isley wrote:
> 
> > The first try was just installing bin.  After printing xxxx blocks
> > on debug window I got Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode.
> 
>   Sounds like hardware.  Try disabling the cache.
> 
What is the problem with FreeBSD and caches - I could not install, and 
cannot rebuild a kernel with my cache turned on !  Turning it off is a 
pretty easy fix - but I also take a pretty big performance hit.

What does it mean if your cache is causing these problems ?