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- From: wjolitz@soda.berkeley.edu (William F. Jolitz)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: 8Mb stability patches DESPERATELY needed!
- Date: 8 Sep 1992 17:49:47 GMT
- Organization: U.C. Berkeley, CS Undergraduate Association
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- References: <1992Sep8.062725.9038@marlin.jcu.edu.au>
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- In article <1992Sep8.062725.9038@marlin.jcu.edu.au> cejjb@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Jeffrey J Bird) writes:
- >I am in very desparate need of the patches that stop 386BSD 0.1
- >freezing when there is more than 8Mb of memory in the machine.
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- This is a buffer cache problem, dealing with fragmentation of an internal
- resource. The fix for this, the "panic kmem" problem, and the resulting
- instability are to insert the following line before line 171 ("if(nbuf==0)..")
- of machdep.c:
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- bufpages = min (NKMEMCLUSTERS/2, bugpages); /* XXX */
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- The real solution to this and other problems is related to 0.2 new work.
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- Lynne.
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