From owner-freebsd-smp Mon Dec 20 9:25:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from picalon.gun.de (picalon.gun.de [192.109.159.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 569D515371 for ; Mon, 20 Dec 1999 09:25:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andreas@klemm.gtn.com) Received: from klemm.gtn.com (pppak04.gtn.com [194.231.123.169]) by picalon.gun.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA10678; Mon, 20 Dec 1999 18:25:24 +0100 (MET) Received: (from andreas@localhost) by klemm.gtn.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA19599; Mon, 20 Dec 1999 18:24:01 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from andreas) Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 18:24:01 +0100 From: Andreas Klemm To: Bruce Albrecht Cc: Andreas Klemm , smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: staroffice doesn't work with a 3.4-SMP kernel Message-ID: <19991220182400.A19277@titan.klemm.gtn.com> References: <19991220071515.A1654@titan.klemm.gtn.com> <14429.54514.741408.247090@celery.zuhause.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <14429.54514.741408.247090@celery.zuhause.org>; from bruce@zuhause.mn.org on Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 01:04:18AM -0600 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE SMP X-Disclaimer: A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 01:04:18AM -0600, Bruce Albrecht wrote: > If you want to use StarOffice (or wine) on an SMP system, you'll need > to upgrade to -current. There was some fix to the memory system > around the time 3.1 came out that disabled forking with shared memory > on an SMP system. This was eventually fixed in -current, but never > retrofitted to -stable. Ah, thanks ! Could perhaps somebody think about, if it would be possible to integrate this patch into -stable ? Or are differences in vm subsystem already so big, that a simple merge of it isn't possible ? Andreas /// -- Andreas Klemm http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/~andreas http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/SMP.html powered by Symmetric MultiProcessor FreeBSD Get new songs from our band: http://www.freebsd.org/~andreas/64bits/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message