From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 4 21:55:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA19390 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 4 Nov 1998 21:55:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from spinner.netplex.com.au (spinner.netplex.com.au [202.12.86.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA19383 for ; Wed, 4 Nov 1998 21:55:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Received: from spinner.netplex.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spinner.netplex.com.au (8.9.1/8.9.1/Spinner) with ESMTP id NAA04409; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 13:54:38 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from peter@spinner.netplex.com.au) Message-Id: <199811050554.NAA04409@spinner.netplex.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Brian Tiemann , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netscape crashes (was: Re: OSS sound support) In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 04 Nov 1998 20:52:39 PST." <17458.910241559@time.cdrom.com> Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 13:54:37 +0800 From: Peter Wemm Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: > > I was just trying to find out where that might have been posted, > > which kernel developers have heard about this, whether there's anything > > being done, etc... > > There isn't anyone currently available to work on this though we are > aware of the problem and will get to it as soon as we can. I make > absolutely no predictions as to when that will be since it's not an > easy problem to fix and, as I said, there's nobody to do it at the > moment. I certainly hope/expect the OSS folks to make it known once a > fix has been found since this will no doubt be the result of some > private dialog between them and developer X and I doubt that they will > necessarily post a public confirmation of that here. I'll be having a look at this this afternoon if all goes well. While it's not unreasonable for the contig page allocator to be unable to pull the rabbit out of the hat, it is most definately unreasonable that it crashes the system. > - Jordan Cheers, -Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message