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Date:      Mon, 17 Sep 2001 11:46:29 +0200
From:      Bernd Walter <ticso@mail.cicely.de>
To:        Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: broken installworld?
Message-ID:  <20010917114629.B24211@cicely20.cicely.de>
In-Reply-To: <20010917013650.D37881@coffee.q9media.com>; from mike@FreeBSD.ORG on Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 01:36:50AM -0400
References:  <20010917004543.C37881@coffee.q9media.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0109162153400.20808-100000@beppo> <20010917013650.D37881@coffee.q9media.com>

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On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 01:36:50AM -0400, Mike Barcroft wrote:
> Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> 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 out-of-date and try to regenerate them, not a kernel race.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


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