Re: kern/39242: NetBSD 4.0 will start busy-loop an hang on machines with more than 4 GB memory

[Simon Burge <simonb%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

Wolfgang.Stukenbrock%nagler-company.com@localhost wrote:

> >Synopsis:       NetBSD 4.0 will start busy-loop an hang on machines with 
> >more than 4 GB memory

What does "vmstat -s | grep colors" show on this machine?  If it's a
reasonably recent Intel CPU with 6MB or 12MB of L2 cache, this will
probably not be a power of two and would explain what you're seeing.

In -current this was fixed by both fixing the cache detection stuff
and rev 1.32 of sys/arch/x86/x86/cpu.c.

Cheers,
Simon.