On Wednesday 14 September 2005 15:59, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR kern/30008; it has been noted by GNATS.
>
> From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
> To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
> Cc: juan@xtrarom.org
> Subject: Re: kern/30008
> Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 10:58:42 -0400
>
>  It may, in fact, be pkg-related.  In an email message
>  http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-users/2005/07/07/0010.html
>  Courten Spencer supplied a fix involving
>  /usr/pkg/emul/linux/etc/opt/gnome/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders
>  being garbled.  I've used this procedure successfully on -current and
>  3.0beta.


The following change to sys/arch/i386/include/vmparam.h causes the problem.

revision 1.58
date: 2005/01/10 05:34:51;  author: mycroft;  state: Exp;  lines: +2 -4
Now that countless UVM bugs have been fixed, enable "topdown" memory
allocation by default.

Now to work out the fix.

Nick