Re: memory corruption [Re: try KMGUARD]

[Greg Oster <oster%cs.usask.ca@localhost>]

On Thu, 15 Mar 2012 17:08:47 -0700 (PDT)
Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost> wrote:

> On Thu, 15 Mar 2012, Greg Oster wrote:
> 
> > I saw 3 panics in the space of a few hours yesterday with netbsd-6
> > without this patch.  I've been running netbsd-6 with this patch (and
> > DEBUG and debug_freecheck) for the past 8 hours, and no panic so
> > far... Thanks for this fix!
> 
> My systems have (lately) been much more stable that that.

Heh... seems I got interrupted composing my email and missed an
important part....

I've been running all the atf tests under netbsd-6, and yesterday I was
seeing the panics.  Today I've been running the atf tests
continuously again, with this patch, under netbsd-6 (with DEBUG and
debug_freecheck) and no panic so far...

Later...

Greg Oster

> But I have 
> been running with the patch since last evening, and it has been "rock 
> solid" without a single hiccup.
> 
> > (And count me in favor of a pullup to netbsd-6 :) )
> 
> <aol>me three</aol>
> 
> 
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