Steve Woodford <steve@mctavish.co.uk> writes: 
> The problem in the PR is due to a limitation in the pmap code for
> 68040/68060 cpus. I believe all the m68k ports have this limitation
> whereby a maximum of 7 level 2 segment tables can be allocated on behalf
> of a process. The problem described in the PR does not affect systems with
> 68020/68030 cpus.

  Note that the amiga does a little better with this problem - it uses
8K pages and can fit more entries into the segment tables before running
into problesm.
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Michael L. Hitch                        mhitch@montana.edu
Computer Consultant,  Information Technology Center
Montana State University, Bozeman, MT     USA