Subject: Re: multisegment memory problems
To: Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>
From: Mark Brinicombe <mark@causality.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 07/13/1998 12:41:46
On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Todd Vierling wrote:

> Testcase (remember, this is for sharks with the standard 32MB):  Download
> and configure binutils 2.9.1 for a target of sparc-netbsd (or
> sparc-anything).  Turn off process limits (unlimit under csh).  Once
> configured, go into the opcodes directory and "make sparc-opc.o".  cc1
> should go a little fritzy and show you segments of some other file on your
> system that may currently be accessed or sitting in some random unused VM
> page.  Running the same test multiple times should show you the same
> weirdness. 

Just tried this on an 32MB arm32 CATS board and I don't have a problem.

> I can reproduce this on both Sharks, and the random behavior of Sendmail is
> a little shocking to go with this.  Any ideas?
I should be able to dig up a shark around here somewhere (NCI) and try
that.

Cheers,
				Mark