Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 17:31:28 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: peter@spinner.dialix.com, wpaul@freefall.freebsd.org Cc: current@FreeBSD.org, dyson@FreeBSD.org, mark@grondar.za, peter@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: VM bogon? Was: Re: NIS breakage Message-ID: <199701200631.RAA14932@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>BTW, are these failure cases happening on P5 or P6's? Perhaps the >fpu-based "fast" P5 copyin/copyout are to blame here? Mark, if you are >seeing this on a P5 machine and can reproduce this easily, try looking up Didn't Mark say that this is on a 386? :-). Don't blame the fpu-based copyin/out if your are not sure. It had enough real bugs in untagged releases for a year of FUD. >the option for NPX_DISABLE_I586_OPTIMIZED_COPYIO in npx.c and see if you >can figure out how to configure npx's flags to disable this floating point. > I think it's "device npx0 ..... flags 4" or something like that. Perhaps >"flags 7" might be best to eliminate the possibility. See LINT. I think it's "flags npx0 4" in userconfig. npx0 is invisibile in visual userconfig :-(. Bruce
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