"Paul A. Howes" wrote: > These two kernel options seem to have solved the problem. Builds now > run smoothly and error-free. I read the comments in NOTES about these > options and something clicked: I recall that most Pentium processors > will only deal with 4 kB pages. Aren't 4 MB pages a feature of the Xeon > processor, as it can address much more memory?
No. The feature is existance-tested before it is used. These processors have a bug when dealing with certain operations relating to interactions of 4K and 4M pages. > If that is the case, then these options should be the default, and their > inverse provided in the kernel configuration file (ENABLE_PSE & > ENABLE_PG_G). You will lose around 15% performance from not having them enabled. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
