On Wed, 28 Jan 1998 10:47:25 +0900 (JST) 
 nisimura@is.aist-nara.ac.jp (Toru Nishimura) wrote:

 > Hi.  I'm experiencing kernel panics with DEC3000/300.  Does anyone
 > out there have same trouble with 1.3 GENERIC kernel?
 > 
 > The panic is very easily reproducable and system is nearly unusable.
 > Runing '/sbin/config GENERIC' and/or 'make depend' can crash instantly.
 > Kernel is GENERIC#0.  I'm very sure when I tried snapshot kernel last
 > summar, the kernel was very stable and never made any trouble like this.
 > 
 > I've already sent a PR, but received no reply. I'm wondering this trouble
 > is just peculiar to mine, or more popular.

Ah, I just saw the PR (looks like it didn't get forwarded to netbsd-bugs
properly, hrm...)

One question:  What is your file system block size?  I'm willing to bet
it's not an even multiple of the page size (8k).

P.S. I'll also make sure your subscribe makes it though.

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