Subject: Re: Last ditch effort to get my 10 running
To: Chris Torek <torek@BSDI.COM>
From: Kevin P. Neal <kpneal@pobox.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 02/12/1997 13:40:18
At 04:58 AM 2/12/97 -0700, Chris Torek wrote:
>> A TI TMS390Z55 SuperCache
>>in their machine having the problem of random core dumps
>
>I am not even running NetBSD (I am running BSD/OS), and yes, we
>have this. I thought I had fixed it (using SWAP to update PTEs,
>flushing store buffers, etc.), but it still occurs. It seems
>to occur only when the machine starts paging.
My machine hasn't swapped yet. Are you referring to the paging in of
the .text in a program?
Also, this problem you saw: Did it affect networking? Because my machine
basically goes to heck when the le0 is ifconfig'd.
>Note that the problem does *not* occur on my non-Ecache
>system, so it appears to have something to do with the Ecache.
*sigh*
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