Re: data corruption with current (maybe sis chipset related?)

From: John Hay <jhay_at_icomtek.csir.co.za>
Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 17:18:11 +0200
On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 04:39:37PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <20030508142234.GA1359_at_laptop.6bone.nl>, Mark Santcroos writes:
> 
> >They prevent the usage of 4M pages. It's a CPU bug that will cause data
> >corruption if enabled.
> >
> >Terry Lambert (at least) knows the details.
> 
> I _really_ doubt that.
> 
> Please treat all information from Terry as highly suspect, he has not
> been in touch with our source code for years.

Be that as it may, it was still he that suggested those options and
claims that he knows more. On my machine at work, a 1.8GHz P4, those
options give me a useable stable machine and without it I get signal
10 and 11's left,right and center. That machine is building a snap
every night and has an uptime of 37 days because that is when I last
updated it.

John
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John Hay -- John.Hay_at_icomtek.csir.co.za / jhay_at_FreeBSD.org
Received on Thu May 08 2003 - 06:18:26 UTC

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