On Wed, 3 Dec 1997, Frank van der Linden wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 03, 1997 at 12:01:51PM -0800, Jonathan O'Brien wrote:
>  
> > It's not exactly like the above, but I've been seeing the following
> > panics ever since the last round of sparc changes. It seems to me that
> > having my SS2 use a serial console aggravates the problem. When the 
> > system first comes up, if I hit return on the serial console, then
> > telnet in from another system, I almost always get a panic.
> 
> > BTW, I'm not using MFS, but it is compiled into the kernel.
> > 
> > I just noticed that I didn't have any swap configured (forgot to add
> > it to the fstab). Is swap required?
> 
> Not 'required' if you are certain that you are never going to use
> more than your physical amount of memory.. But how likely is that?
> NetBSD will crash eventually when you run out of VM, so try enabling
> that swapspace and see if it still happens.

I doubt the crashes were due to a lack of swap, I had rebuilt the
world several times before this last round of changes without a single
panic. The system has 64MB and I don't run X. :) But, we'll see what
happens.

Jon