On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Jan Grant wrote: > On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Mike Tancsa wrote: > > > 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 > > Latest was pre-weekend; I'm just completing a fresh build now, so I hope > this'll lick the problem, thanks. (Incidentally this might well be worth > documenting in UPDATING since it's an issue that's been plaguing me [and > a few correspondents, according to emails I've had] for a while.)
Well, I'm pleased to report what looks like success: as Mike indicated, PSE is now disabled automatically by default. I've tried repeating the activities which have recently been triggering memory corruption - so far with no ill effects. I'll keep the stress tests running overnight. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ "I think therefore I am." -- Ronnie Descartes _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
