matt's fixing the problems as he figures them out, but this one remaining
bug that we know of appears to be pretty tricky.  unfortunately I think
you're right about -current macppc kernels not being reliable enough for
heavy loads at the moment.  I think the new pmap is more stable than the
old one, but there's at least one bug in the new one that people are
hitting more often than you'd be comfortable with.

-Chuck


On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 08:13:44PM -0800, Monroe Williams wrote:
> Is someone actively working on fixing the bugs in the new pmap?  I really
> hate to hear that -current macppc kernels Just Aren't Reliable with either
> pmap, but that seems to be what the evidence suggests.
> 
> A 1.5.2 kernel just doesn't make good use of the 1.25G of RAM in this box,
> but that's what I'm planning to deploy this weekend, if I can figure out the
> proper settings for BUFPAGES & friends.  I may end up downgrading to 512M to
> get the kernel to boot...
> 
> -- monroe
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> Monroe Williams                                  monroe@criticalpath.com