From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 11 10:40: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02CD314E71 for ; Thu, 11 Mar 1999 10:39:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id DAA22544; Fri, 12 Mar 1999 03:39:45 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <36E80BAB.ADF73A60@newsguy.com> Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 03:30:03 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew Dillon Cc: Greg Rowe , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, David Greenman Subject: Re: SMP Woes References: <199903111758.JAA66670@apollo.backplane.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matthew Dillon wrote: > > David, hackers, Gentlemen! This is the third person to hit this problem. > It is especially nasty because the failure condition is not always > something easily traceable. I, for one, would personally like to see the > problem fixed and damn the BSDI compatibility. At the very least, we > have to panic when the kernel's page table is overrun! Besides, Gb-range memory is getting ever more common. For new high-end servers, it is getting to the point of being a "must". -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "My theory is that his ignorance clouded his poor judgment." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message