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Date:      Mon, 18 Nov 2002 09:22:58 +0200
From:      Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@attbi.com>
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG, marks@ripe.net, tlambert2@mindspring.com, bmilekic@unixdaemons.com, dl-freebsd@catspoiler.org, stranger@sberbank.sibnet.ru, vova@sw.ru, sos@freebsd.dk, udo.schweigert@siemens.com, ktsin@acm.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Memory corruption in -STABLE on P4/2GHz
Message-ID:  <20021118072258.GA8576@vega.vega.com>
In-Reply-To: <20021117195448.A54706@attbi.com>
References:  <20021117211654.GE6115@vega.vega.com> <20021117195448.A54706@attbi.com>

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On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 07:54:48PM -0500, Craig Rodrigues wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 11:16:54PM +0200, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> > Hi there,
> > 
> > I'm observing very strange memory corruption problems with 2GHz P4
> > system running 4.7 (security branch as of today). Under the load
> > (make -j20 buildworld) the compiler or make(1) often die with signal
> > 11. I found in mailing lists that there is similarly looking problem
> > with -current, any chances that -stable is affected as well?
> 
> I'm seeing similar errors on -current on my AMD K6-2 machine:
> 
> CPU: AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor (400.91-MHz 586-class CPU)
>   Origin = "AuthenticAMD"  Id = 0x58c  Stepping = 12
>   Features=0x8021bf<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8,PGE,MMX>
>   AMD Features=0xffffffff80000800<SYSCALL,3DNow!>
> Data TLB: 128 entries, 2-way associative
> Instruction TLB: 64 entries, 1-way associative
> L1 data cache: 32 kbytes, 32 bytes/line, 2 lines/tag, 2-way associative
> L1 instruction cache: 32 kbytes, 32 bytes/line, 2 lines/tag, 2-way associative
> Write Allocate Enable Limit: 384M bytes
> Write Allocate 15-16M bytes: Enable
> 
> I am seeing make or /usr/libexec/cc1 intermittently coredump with SIG 11 or 
> SIG 10 errors when trying to do a buildworld.
> I wasn't sure if it was because I had flaky hardware or not.

It is likely that those aren't related. Mine K6-2/500, which I had
while back, was also causing SIG 11, due to overheating. Another
possible reason is memory - you should check that you have PC100,
not PC66 installed, because K6-2/400 runs with 100MHz FSB.

In this case, the possible overheating is eliminated by keeping the
case fully opened but it doesn't help much.

-Maxim


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