port-pmax: Re: Profiling timer expired?

Subject: Re: Profiling timer expired?
To: Toru Nishimura <port-pmax@netbsd.org, nisimura@is.aist-nara.ac.jp>
From: Matthias Drochner <drochner@zelux6.zel.kfa-juelich.de>
List: port-pmax
Date: 10/19/1998 00:02:01

Excerpts from netbsd: 15-Oct-98 Re: Profiling timer expired? Toru
Nishimura@is.aist-n (829)

>> both have killed off long-running bc jobs with a "Profiling
>> timer expired" message.

I believe I've just fixed it (mips/mips_machdep.c rev 1.37).
It seems that this was caused by use of uninitialized memory
for the u-area, so it depends on previous use of the machine's
physical memory.

best regards
Matthias