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Date:      Sun, 29 Sep 1996 16:52:39 -0600
From:      Steve Passe <smp@csn.net>
To:        ODA Kazutoshi <okaz@yggdrasil.forus.or.jp>
Cc:        FreeBSD-smp@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Tyan S1562D Tomcat2 
Message-ID:  <199609292252.QAA21480@clem.systemsix.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 30 Sep 1996 05:28:16 %2B0900." <199609292028.FAA29962@urd.yggdrasil.forus.or.jp> 

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Hi,

>> How much memory do you have in this machine?
>
>  32MBytes.

Peter reports (NOT directly in reply to this mailing):
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Well, based on what we now know about things that we don't do, I'm a little
amazed that it's working as well as it seems to be in general.  We are not
doing TLB invalidation of other cpu's into account when modifying other
processes page tables (which are possibly running on another cpu).

This is a time-bomb that will affect low-memory or otherwise memory starved
systems far worse than those that have plenty.  (I run on 48M of ram and don't
see it at all for days.  I would expect 16M systems would be pretty bumpy.)
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I have 64 meg and never see it.  I suspect your getting hit by this
problem.  Unfortunately I don't have a solution.  Anyone have a suggestion
for "proving" this theory?

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