From owner-freebsd-current Mon Sep 17 2:46:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from srv1.cosmo-project.de (srv1.cosmo-project.de [213.83.6.106]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E03037B40C; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 02:46:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.cicely.de (cicely20 [10.1.1.22]) by srv1.cosmo-project.de (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f8H9k5626155; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 11:46:06 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from ticso@localhost) by mail.cicely.de (8.11.0/8.11.0) id f8H9kUm24528; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 11:46:30 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 11:46:29 +0200 From: Bernd Walter To: Mike Barcroft Cc: Matthew Jacob , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: broken installworld? Message-ID: <20010917114629.B24211@cicely20.cicely.de> References: <20010917004543.C37881@coffee.q9media.com> <20010917013650.D37881@coffee.q9media.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010917013650.D37881@coffee.q9media.com>; from mike@FreeBSD.ORG on Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 01:36:50AM -0400 X-Operating-System: NetBSD cicely20.cicely.de 1.5 sparc Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 01:36:50AM -0400, Mike Barcroft wrote: > Matthew Jacob writes: > > ROFL. That's hilarious. > > By timing issue, I mean where the Makefiles think the files are > out-of-date and try to regenerate them, not a kernel race. :) > > > This is a pretty much brand new kernel- same tree, buildkernel/installkernel. > > Okay, it's from last night's cvsup. But still. > > The problem was solved for me and the other person experiencing the > problem about a week ago. JHB speculated that the problem's > disappearence was the result of a commit from dfr to pmap.c. The pmap.c fix wasn't a timing thing. It just fixed the referenced modified tracking of pages. The ugly phaenomen I saw was reincarnation of old page content in low memory conditions. At best you install a new kernel before buildworld. -- B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de ticso@cicely.de Usergroup info@cosmo-project.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message