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Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 18:55:03 -0800 (PST)
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From: Simon Shapiro <Shimon@i-Connect.Net>
To: Steve Passe <smp@csn.net>
Subject: Re: troubles with smp kernel
Cc: mishania@demos.su, freebsd-smp@freebsd.org,
        (Alex G. Bulushev) <bag@sinbin.demos.su>
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Hi Steve Passe;  On 31-Jan-97 you wrote: 
> Hi,
> 
> > > but with all recomended options ... system very unstable ...
> > > regulary after rebooting fsck stopped on drive sd2 cheking with
message:
> > > 
> > > cannot alloc 4177922 bytes for lncntp
> > 
> > I get that one when doing fsck on a 4GB file system.  Causes /etc/rc to
> > fail and drop into user mode.  On a 2.2-BETA, no SMP, etc.
> > The amount of memory is only about 2MB, not 4.  I had to disable the
fsck
> > in /etc/rc, so the system will boot and mount /Archives/FreeBSD :-)
> 
> this is good to know, has this been reported to bugs via send-pr (or
> other means)?  is there any keyword(s) for searching the mail lists 
> for further info on this problem?

Now there is :-)

lncntp 'fsck -p' 4GB

Simon