Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Apr 1998 00:15:19 -0400 (EDT) | From | Jon Lewis <> | Subject | Re: Compiling with gcc, sig 11, I've got the answer(?) |
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On Mon, 13 Apr 1998, Perry Harrington wrote:
> I've noticed that I'm getting sig 11 a lot with my 486 machines. > Isuspect that this is related to 486's and write back caches. > My Cyrix 486 and Intel dx4 both get sig11's. They both have > write back caches. However, I never had this problem with my AMD > and it has a write back cache. I suspect that AMD has a better > cache manager. Anyhow, I'm strongly leaning towards the wrback > cache being the problem.
A lot of 486 motherboards were sold with bad or totally fake cache that would do this sort of thing.
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