Re: Memory problem Part II

["J T Gill" <jtgill%mis.net@localhost>]

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