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From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
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Subject: Re: Machine Locks Up After Recent VM Changes
In-Reply-To: <19970720081318.23409@scsn.net> from "Donald J. Maddox" at "Jul 20, 97 08:13:18 am"
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Date: Sun, 20 Jul 1997 11:36:53 -0500 (EST)
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> 
>     Since the recent VM changes, a number of X-based programs lock
> up my machine almost instantly when executed.  A couple of good
> examples are swriter3 from the StarOffice package, and xkobo-1.9
> from the port.
> 
Yes, others have been seeing it.  Try removing the call to
pmap_addr_hint on about line 977 in /sys/vm/vm_mmap.c.  Before
doing that, please "cat" the contents of /proc/<X-server-pid>/map
and send it to me.

Thanks.
John