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- From: ccml@hippo.ru.ac.za (Mike Lawrie)
- Subject: Re: 8Mb stability patches DESPERATELY needed!
- Message-ID: <1992Sep12.192840.1933@hippo.ru.ac.za>
- Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
- References: <1992Sep8.062725.9038@marlin.jcu.edu.au> <18ip3rINNg2m@agate.berkeley.edu>
- Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 19:28:40 GMT
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- In <18ip3rINNg2m@agate.berkeley.edu> wjolitz@soda.berkeley.edu (William F. Jolitz) writes:
-
- >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.
-
- >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:
-
- > bufpages = min (NKMEMCLUSTERS/2, bugpages); /* XXX */
-
- >The real solution to this and other problems is related to 0.2 new work.
-
- Even with /bugpages/bufpages as in a kernel patch from somewhere, my 8Mb
- 386 still hangs when it is very busy (eg executing make in
- /usr/othersrc/share).
-
- Anyone else with a fix or a pointer in the right direction?
-
- Mike
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