Expert input required: P4 odd signals, no apparent memory
fault, DISABLE_PSE?
Mike Tancsa
mike at sentex.net
Mon Oct 20 09:10:59 PDT 2003
How recent is your copy of RELENG_4 ? The PSE disable code was committed
to the tree already as well as a fix so it would work with APM on the
17th. By default it is disabled. If you look at your dmesg.boot you
should see
Warning: Pentium 4 CPU: PSE disabled
---Mike
At 11:38 AM 20/10/2003, Jan Grant wrote:
>I'm tracking -STABLE on a 1.8GHz P4 with 512MB of memory. Roughly since
>the PAE changes were MFCed, I've been seeing memory-corruption-related
>errors under specific circumstances: for example, a run of
> portsdb -fUu
>can be guaranteed to generate SIGBUS, SIGILL and SIGSEGVs in a handful
>of sh, sed, etc. processes.
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