Re: Is amd64 ready for the desktop?

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 09:33:18PM +0300, Aleksey Cheusov wrote:
> 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.

I have just found one interesting bug that gets hidden by larger stack
sizes and potentially turned into a memory corruption instead.

Please run mplayer with gdb and get a back trace of the sigbus/sig11.

Joerg