Matthias Drochner <M.Drochner@fz-juelich.de> writes:
> > The patch is available at:
> > http://lola.pin.lu/netbsd/kernel-patches/sa-pagefault-030915.patch
> 
> I've tested this with some applications: browsers work, my
> favorite games too (prboom, sarien/larry).
> What still has problems is xine -- it hangs after a couple of
> seconds if I eg play an .mp3. The UI doesn't hang - I can still
> exit regularily, but audio output and that spectrum-analyzer-like
> thing stall. Looking with ktrace I found that it still writes
> streams of zeroes to some file descriptor, probably audio.
> If you have any hints how to track this down...

There was some environment variable Nathan set up to help with
debugging threaded applications -- does anyone remember what it was
and how it worked? I vaguely remember that you could set it to
complain about bad uses of the thread library, which might help
Matthias here...


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Perry E. Metzger		perry@piermont.com