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Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1999 17:54:09 -0700
From: Doug <Studded@gorean.org>
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To: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
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Subject: Re: BUF_LOCK() related panic..
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Peter Wemm wrote:
> 
> Doug wrote:
> >       Please forgive me if this is a naive question, but could this problem a
>     lso
> > relate to why starting netscape now panic's my system? I have a UP celeron
> > 300a system and with the most recent -current I can boot fine, startx fine,
> > but as soon as I try to start netscape the system locks and reboots.
> >
> >       I can add DDB and do all that stuff if needed, however if it's possible
> > that this problem is the cause I will simply wait for the fix.
> 
> I suspect you were running into a problem in swap_pager.c.  If anything is
> going to make your system swap, netscape will be it.  I *think* I fixed
> that particular problem in swap_pager about an hour or so ago.

	Ok, I tried updating and rebuilding the kernel after your commit, still no
joy. To add excitment, when it locks up I can't break to the debugger,
either automatically or by doing Ctrl-Alt-Escape. 

>  The
> cluster_wbuild() problem is still lurking though, best advice is to
> backtrack a bit.

	*nod* I will just hang out in windows for a while and check my commit
mail. If it doesn't get fixed by the time I am ready to go back to beating
on my serial console project, I'll do just that.

Thank you for the response,

Doug


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