Hi, On 09/29/11 06:43, matthew green wrote:
I just updated to 5.99.56 and see how it fares. I am under "tight" memory condition having only 256MBytes of ram on the laptop currently.this should be fixed now, assuming it is the same problem: http://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2011/09/28/msg027660.html it will have triggered under memory-pressure conditions. the easy test case was building qemu in a smaller VM. i noticed that at various points of the qemu build, cc1 grew to *over* 1GiB, and a gas process had grown to over 400MiB. so.. qemu is a good test of straining the system. this was also PR#45361. the symptoms could have been kind of anything since it was a memory corruption issue.
Yesterday, while using it directly, the machine froze completely under X11, needing a power-cycle. I don't know if it is related.
I just subscribed to current-users, it makes probably more sense to continue discussion there. I hope we can sort out these things before a release. It makes me uncomfortable to have an unstable NetBSD machine.
Riccardo