From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Feb 17 22:54:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from curry.turban2000.net (rn-re145b08.uwaterloo.ca [129.97.236.183]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1AD937B421 for ; Sun, 17 Feb 2002 22:51:25 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jdhar@localhost) by curry.turban2000.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1I1vJv24615 for freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 01:57:20 GMT (envelope-from jdhar) Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 01:57:11 +0000 From: Jai Dhar To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: P4 L1 cache problem maybe??? Message-ID: <20020218015710.D24518@curry.turban2000.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, I was wondering if anyone knew how I could possibly test if my L1 Cache on my P4 1.4 is faulty? The reason I ask is because while trying to make buildworld recently, I had errors. The actual problem is that out of 6 retries compiling, I got 6 different errors in 6 different places. I synced my tree with 4.5-STABLE, and am using 4.5-RC2 right now... after asking around, people said it could be my ram or my CPU cache, so I swapped my ram out, and problem still persists, so when trying to make buildworld with L1 cache disabled, I ended up waiting 12 hours , while it was still going. Is thee any way I can test to see if my cache is faulty without sitting through a build world that can take +24 hours??? Keep in mind that I'm not an expert C programmer, and don't know how to write programs that execute themselves in the achce and then instruct them to do a cache spill to see if the times vary ... (this was a suggestion made to me :p). Thank you, Jai To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message