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Subject: Re: VirtualBox mangles memory
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On 09/22/15 16:20, Adam Vande More wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 2:26 PM, Martin Birgmeier <la5lbtyi@aon.at> wrote:

>> I am quite sure that the
>> cause is to be found there
>>
> 
> I don't see any cause for surety in the info you have given us.  Have you
> tried any basic steps like monitoring usage during these events or running
> it under truss/valgrind etc to find out what is going on?
> 

Another data point ..

I run it on -CURRENT and there have been a number of VM-related changes
of late but I don't have any problems with it.

However, you *must* recompile (at least) the modules whenever the kernel
is rebuilt as they depend heavily on the underlying kernel structures,

	imb