From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 22 14:28:06 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA29704 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 22 Jul 1997 14:28:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu (dayton@louis.sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu [146.245.1.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA29674; Tue, 22 Jul 1997 14:27:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dayton@localhost) by sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu (8.8.5/8.8.4) id RAA02030; Tue, 22 Jul 1997 17:27:52 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 17:27:52 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199707222127.RAA02030@sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu> From: Dayton Clark To: questions@freebsd.org, smp@freebsd.org Subject: Goliath and 2.2.2 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Folks, I'm sending this to questions and smp because I suspect that the smp folks may be in a better position to answer the question. To those who get the message twice, I apologize. My system: Vendor: SAG Motherboard: AMI Goliath Processors: 4 PPro 200 Video: Number9 Image 128 2e SCSI: Adaptec 2940 RAM: 128M Solaris and WindowsNT run fine on this machine, in multi-processor mode. FreeBSD 2.2.1 ran OK except for X Windows which made the machine hang. I've installed FreeBSD 2.2.2 and I get many many mysterious bus errors and segmentation faults. The system as a whole survives, but many programs dump core. Anyone know what's happening? Cache inconsistency seems like a likely culprit. I disabled the L1 cache from the setup, and got the same result (but much slower 8-). I hope to try the SMP FreeBSD. Perhaps I should jump to some variant of Fbsd 3 and see if the problem disappears. Which variant would you suggest? Any other suggestions? thanks dayton Dayton Clark CIS Department dayton@brooklyn.cuny.edu Brooklyn College/CUNY 1-718-951-4811 Brooklyn, New York 11210 1-718-951-4842 (fax)