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Date:      Thu, 05 Nov 1998 13:54:37 +0800
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc:        Brian Tiemann <btman@ugcs.caltech.edu>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Netscape crashes (was: Re: OSS sound support) 
Message-ID:  <199811050554.NAA04409@spinner.netplex.com.au>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 04 Nov 1998 20:52:39 PST." <17458.910241559@time.cdrom.com> 

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"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



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