Subject: Re: mindless boredom, speed and compiling kernels
To: Michael L. Hitch <mhitch@lightning.oscs.montana.edu>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-pmax
Date: 05/19/1998 10:33:27
On Tue, 19 May 1998 10:38:05 -0600 
 mhitch@lightning.oscs.montana.edu (Michael L. Hitch) wrote:

 >   UVM stable?  How about when it even runs?  [I can boot it, but as soon
 > as it runs out of free memory and the page daemon starts to run, it hangs.
 > The page daemon seems to hang trying to do I/O.]

I suspect these problems are due to bugs in the MIPS pmap, or other
MIPS-specific code.

Someone really ought to port the NetBSD/alpha pmap to the MIPS... :-)

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