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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!spool.mu.edu!agate!library.ucla.edu!network.ucsd.edu!news.service.uci.edu!nemesis.ps.uci.edu!bob 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 Lines: 22 Message-ID: <2fjgs0$5bt@news.service.uci.edu> Reply-To: rprohask@uci.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: nemesis.ps.uci.edu Summary: Is there any point in trying one if the other won't work? Keywords: virtual memory segmentation fault page fault X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] 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. .