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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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    michaelv@iastate.edu                    Project Vincent Systems Staff
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