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Date:      Sun, 15 Feb 1998 22:08:49 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        sthaug@nethelp.no
Cc:        tlambert@primenet.com, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: VM messed: vm_page_free panic problem
Message-ID:  <199802152208.PAA04157@usr01.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <4541.887579521@verdi.nethelp.no> from "sthaug@nethelp.no" at Feb 15, 98 10:52:01 pm

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> > Ah.  Compression.  Disable your internal and external cache for the
> > time you are booting, and see if it fixes it.  Also, do you have 48M?
> > If so, remove 16M for the install.
> 
> Many other people (myself included) are seeing the exact same problem.
> I had it on a machine with 64 M. Also, I highly doubt that we're all
> having problems with our floppies, caches etc.

What about cache interaction and the decompression algortihm on
the disk?

Are you using a processor that writes back or doesn't write back
the cache as a result of changes in the instruction stream?  Older
processors do not write back.  Newer processors do.  This problem
could easily be specific to newer processors and/or newer MMU
chipsets (for example, on my "old" P90's and my Neptune chipset,
I do *not* see this problem).

We need more specific information about the hardware in the damage
path, and not just all the specific information in the world (ie:
4000 lines of boot messages times 20 people is too much to wade
through).


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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