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From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: unix and hardware errors
Date: 11 Jul 94 17:16:55 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
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In <2vrl9f$574@dockmaster.phantom.com> rpritz@phantom.com (richard) writes:
>I have been getting a number of illegal instruction errors, bus errors and
>segmentation faults while running gcc on large programs under freebsd and
>running linux at all. freebsd otherwise runs fine, and os/2 generally
>runs fine (other than certain problem programs).
>Could these errors be related to a hardware problem? the dos program q&a
>plus runs clean, and, as i said, other stuff runs correctly.
It sounds like a bad cache design. Try turning off your CPU cache and
see if the system behaves better.
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Michael L. VanLoon Iowa State University Computation Center
michaelv@iastate.edu Project Vincent Systems Staff
Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free Un*x for PC/Mac/Amiga/etc.
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