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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!samsung!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!usc!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-picayune.mit.edu!athena.mit.edu!eichin From: eichin@athena.mit.edu (Mark W. Eichin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: mysterious system hangups (W/FIXES!) Message-ID: <EICHIN.92Aug8190003@tsx-11.mit.edu> Date: 8 Aug 92 23:00:11 GMT References: <1992Aug4.175738.7008@Unibase.SK.CA> <michaelv.713151876@test.cc.iastate.edu> <1992Aug8.073502.13655@Unibase.SK.CA> <59549@mimsy.umd.edu> Sender: news@athena.mit.edu (News system) Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lines: 10 In-Reply-To: jds@cs.umd.edu's message of 8 Aug 92 19:39:23 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: tsx-11.mit.edu |> bufpages = min(NKMEMCLUSTERS/2, bufpages); .... I put this in, though I've never had the problem. Continues to work fine. |> value of MAX_KMAPENT in /sys/vm/vm_map.h from 500 to 1000. It worked .... I put this in, and the kernel hangs right after autoconf. This is with 16M of memory on a 486. So this is *not* a perfect solution -- only do it if you're having trouble. (I'm not using an ethernet card, just SLIP, which may be why I don't see it...) _Mark_ <eichin@athena.mit.edu> MIT Student Information Processing Board