Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:26:35 -0600 (CST) From: Bruce Albrecht <Bruce.Albrecht@fingerhut.com> To: Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com> Cc: smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: staroffice doesn't work with a 3.4-SMP kernel Message-ID: <14430.29915.446373.106339@fingerhut.com> In-Reply-To: <19991220182400.A19277@titan.klemm.gtn.com> References: <19991220071515.A1654@titan.klemm.gtn.com> <14429.54514.741408.247090@celery.zuhause.org> <19991220182400.A19277@titan.klemm.gtn.com>
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Andreas Klemm writes: > On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 01:04:18AM -0600, Bruce Albrecht wrote: > > If you want to use StarOffice (or wine) on an SMP system, you'll need > > to upgrade to -current. There was some fix to the memory system > > around the time 3.1 came out that disabled forking with shared memory > > on an SMP system. This was eventually fixed in -current, but never > > retrofitted to -stable. > > Ah, thanks ! Could perhaps somebody think about, if it would > be possible to integrate this patch into -stable ? > Or are differences in vm subsystem already so big, that a simple > merge of it isn't possible ? I brought this up about 6 months ago, and the answer then was that there were no plans by anyone who could implement it to do so. Now that -current is in a feature freeze (or is about to enter it), and 4.0 will probably be released about two months from now, it's even more unlikely that anyone will step up and do it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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