From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 16 18:27:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from implode.root.com (root.com [209.102.106.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E4D2152B0 for ; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 18:26:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from root@implode.root.com) Received: from implode.root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by implode.root.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA01082; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 18:24:53 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199903170224.SAA01082@implode.root.com> To: Matthew Dillon Cc: "David E. Cross" , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: KVA size changes in 3.1-stable In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 16 Mar 1999 18:02:35 PST." <199903170202.SAA21057@apollo.backplane.com> From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 18:24:52 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >: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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message