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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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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.
Lynne.