Re: port-cobalt/46890: netbsd-6 / 6.0_RC1 very unstable / unusable on (my) cobalt qube 2

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR port-cobalt/46890; it has been noted by 
GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: port-cobalt/46890: netbsd-6 / 6.0_RC1 very unstable / unusable
 on (my) cobalt qube 2
Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2012 20:13:08 +0000

 On Sun, Sep 02, 2012 at 04:40:01PM +0000, mk%kilbi.de@localhost wrote:
  >       # cd /mnt/tmp/
  >       # pax -zrpe -f perl-5.14.2.tar.gz
  > 
  >     ... which lead to some unexpected messages / errors after some
  >     time:
  > 
  >       pax: Unable to store mode and times for directory: perl-5.14.2/t/re
  >       pax: Cannot malloc 29 bytes (Cannot allocate memory)
  >       pax: Cannot malloc 32 bytes (Cannot allocate memory)
  >       pax: Cannot malloc 30 bytes (Cannot allocate memory)
  >       pax: Cannot malloc 32 bytes (Cannot allocate memory)
 
 Sounds like something very bad in pmap-land, or maybe something wrong
 with cache flushing.
 
 Does it go down the drain if there's no (or nearly no) disk I/O?
 
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 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost