From owner-freebsd-current Wed Sep 18 02:38:31 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id CAA27874 for current-outgoing; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 02:38:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ra.dkuug.dk (ra.dkuug.dk [193.88.44.193]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA27846; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 02:38:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from sos@localhost) by ra.dkuug.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) id LAA13877; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 11:38:15 +0200 Message-Id: <199609180938.LAA13877@ra.dkuug.dk> Subject: Re: possible vm kernel death To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 11:38:15 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: sos@FreeBSD.org, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, gpalmer@FreeBSD.org, dg@Root.COM, current@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199609180930.TAA05519@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Sep 18, 96 07:00:44 pm From: sos@FreeBSD.org Reply-to: sos@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In reply to Michael Smith who wrote: > > FWIW, it's back to 8M from 16 on memory borrowed from another machine > and so far is tooling along OK. I'm encouraged enough to go home > and let it be (with a kernel 3mo out of sync with userland, I can't > talk to it from home 8). > > I don't know whether the lower memory configuration is affecting things > or not, but you could go back to 8M and try 8) 8) 8) Hmm, I see much better results on my notebook if I downgrade it to 4M (the only option :) ), but the problem is not totally gone however... (And the poor notebook pages it self to death). But it might be usefull info though, John are you listening ?? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Soren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team So much code to hack -- so little time.