Re: Is amd64 ready for the desktop?

["D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <darcy%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 21:33:18 +0300
Aleksey Cheusov <cheusov%tut.by@localhost> wrote:
> 
> > Although mplayer works it seems to fail on some certain files.  Under
> > i386 I never had any problems.
> 
> mplayer often segfaults on my i386 too on some files. As far as I
> understand the problem is that NetBSD has too small stack by default,
> only 2 megabytes.  But it works just fine after increasing stack limit
> to 20Mb. Again this is on my NetBSD-4/i386.

Hmm.  I suppose it would be more noticable on amd64 because 64 bit
systems use the stack faster.

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