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From: Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu>
To: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
cc: Bill Fumerola <billf@chc-chimes.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: So we're stuck with using timidity now? 
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> > > > anyway. And with some talking to Dev at 4-front tech, I'm sure an
> > > > agreement could be made.
> > > 
> > > OSS is better. Better at panicing my system. Lets use the homegrown
> > > solutions before we start implementing a _known_ buggy module.
> > 
> > Are you using the newest OSS? Also, Dev at 4-front tech has told me that
> > the problem with his software panicing the kernel is because of problems
> > with FreeBSD's virtual memory system. So do we need to fix that, or do we
> > need to make Dev find a non-existant workaround (he has already looked for
> > one)?? 
> 
> I think that problem has been fixed, a month or two ago.  contigmalloc() 
> was doing some silly things.

Yeah, I think I was one of the ones that helped with that. However, there
are other problems, and Dev says they are not his.


Kenneth Culver


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