Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 18:24:52 -0800 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: "David E. Cross" <crossd@cs.rpi.edu>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: KVA size changes in 3.1-stable Message-ID: <199903170224.SAA01082@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 16 Mar 1999 18:02:35 PST." <199903170202.SAA21057@apollo.backplane.com>
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>:We have pretty much ruled out everything else. No 2 of the crashes are ever
>:the same, it is only this machine, and the only difference between this
>:machine and other machines that are rock solid (48+ days uptime), is that
>:this machine has the high maxusers. It is required that this machine
>:has a high maxusers as it is used for shell access for students writing
>:programs.
>:
>:Are there any problems with incorperating Tor's changes into 3.1-STABLE? If
>:so please speak, as that is exactly what I am doing now.
>:--
>:David Cross
>
> I'm not sure if the 3.x bootblocks & /boot stuff can handle the
> relocated kernel. If not, you would have to use 4.x bootblocks and
> /boot stuff ( which should work under both 3.x and 4.x ). Otherwise,
> it should work under 3.x.
The boot problem is only with ELF kernels, so another solution is to build
the kernel in a.out format ("KERNFORMAT= aout" in /etc/make.conf).
-DG
David Greenman
Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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