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From: bob@obiwan.uucp (Bob Willcox)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: GCC 2.3.3 + kernels
Message-ID: <C2E1L5.2EH@obiwan.uucp>
Date: 13 Feb 93 13:03:04 GMT
References: <1l5h8tINN218b@obelix.uni-muenster.de>
Organization: Bob's Place, Austin TX
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In article <1l5h8tINN218b@obelix.uni-muenster.de> fraune@math.uni-muenster.de writes:
> Additionally, my 386 hung on heavy systemload (did this with the original 386bsd-0.1-kernel as well as with the patchkit 0.1 and 0.2 kernels. After
>forcing 386bsd to use the NPX-emulator instead of my (ULSI-)387 anything
>works fine. Did other users experience similar problems with the ULSI-NPX ?
I have seen this (or what sounds the same) with my two 386bsd systems
here that both have (had) the ULSI Mathco. I could easily cause it to
fail by simply running groff in a for loop against a bunch of man pages.
Had to disable the math coprocessors to get around the problem (with a
noticable degradation in groff's performance). I am waiting for
replacement mathcos (Cyrix this time) and hope that they don't
demonstrate the same problem.
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