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From: bob@nemesis.ps.uci.edu (bob prohaska )
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: How different is VM twixt NetBSD and FreeBSD?
Date: 26 Dec 1993 08:09:36 GMT
Organization: University of California, Irvine
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Summary: Is there any point in trying one if the other won't work?
Keywords: virtual memory segmentation fault page fault
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Hello all,

How different are the virtual memory system in NetBSD and FreeBSD?

If FreeBSD 1.0.2 suffers from what look like VM problems  on 
one machine (actually two, if you count disk controller/motherboard
swaps) would there be any hope that NetBSD might work better? At 
this point I'd even settle for different 8-)

I'm referring to the problem of GCC getting segmentation violations
while running make world. I've swapped out the disk controller,
motherboard and memory, and so far only succeeded in making the
problem worse 8-\   Admittedly, the memory swap took the system
from 16M to 4M bytes, but it seems that if faulty memory were the
problem there would be some change in behavior; there wasn't, save
that errors were reported much sooner, sometimes on the first
invocation of gcc. I haven't swapped the cpu yet but I'm getting there.

thanks for reading

bob.
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