hello, 

hmm. the symptom so far is that the machine freezes.  Processes already 
running are still evidently running, but no new processes can be started. 
I suspect detritus in the cache, the ka690 does have a bigger
cache than the 680. 512k vs 128k.  i know the boards should more or less be 
identical except for speed (14 ns for the 680, 12 ns for the 690) and cache.
Can i get the source from which you built the kernel you sent me, so i can 
change the cache enable routine to flush a larger cache and see if it 
works? 

Isildur


On Sun, 11 Mar 2001, Michael Kukat wrote:

> Hi !
> 
> Lord Isildur wrote:
> > 
> > After being up a little while, it crashed while editing the passwd file.
> > I'm not sure if it crashed in vi, or in mkpasswd.
> > ill try to duplicate it and find out more.
> 
> This might be a cache problem, i assume the same cache as in the
> 4000/500 for the 4000/600 as i don't have any information... but
> crashing that late doesn't seem to be a problem related to cache. Could
> you please try some "hardcore action" like building the kernel or so?
> Thanx for the output, i'll include the correct values for the 4000/600
> in the sources soon, then it's no more "unknown" :)
> 
> ...Michael
>