Subject: Re: Memory problem Part II
To: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@jocelyn.rhein.de>
From: J T Gill <jtgill@mis.net>
List: port-amiga
Date: 08/09/1998 01:48:00
Hello Ignatios Souvatzis, on 07-Aug-98 15:13:08, you said,
>On Sat, Jun 20, 1998 at 02:24:21PM -0500, J T Gill wrote:
>> It just gets more interesting.....
>>
>> I had written the mailing list about a problem I developed when adding
>> more ram to my Amiga 4000 running NetBSD 1.3.2.
>In short: there's a bug in the NetBSD/Amiga "pmap" part of the kernel that
>hits people with lots of memory and big address space graphics boards.
>We're not sure yet were the actual bug is. Investigations are ongoing.
>A workaround seems to be to increase the Sysptsize variable.
WooHoo!! It worked great. In fact, my boot sequence is now about half
the time it was. I don't know if this is because of that, but it
doesn't take anytime at all to boot into BSD now. Thanks a bunch.
Jeff