On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, S.J. Borrill wrote:

> I've been altering the number of processes by altering the boot string to
> include maxproc=<number>. This works fine up to 128 processes, but seems
> to go a bit screwy after that. maxproc=256 fails during booting when it
> tries to fork init and drops to the db> prompt. maxproc=192 allows the
> machine to boot, but only lets a few processes be started before the shell
> returns 'no more processes' (note doesn't complain about L1 page tables).
> Am I limited to a small number of processes on the CATS or is it just a
> silly mistake or some soft resource limit? I need more processes if I want
> to run Apache (which forks a child per client request). On a RiscPC, I can
> set 256 L1 page tables no problem and it all works fine.
Hmmmm,
	Probably not he answer you want ...

>> Cyclone 0.4 firmware for Chalice CATS (X86EMU)
>> Copyright 1997,1998 Causality Limited
>> Machine id 710000005b3009b0

32 MB memory available

bootable devices are:
	ne0	wd0	sd0	wd1	cd0
boot> boot ne0: maxproc=256 novgacon
[cut]
NetBSD/arm32 booting ...
bootfile: ne0:
bootargs: maxproc=256 novgacon
initarm: Configuring system ...
physmemory: 8192 pages at 0x00000000 -> 0x01ffffff
[cut]
Number of pages to handle = 8192
pmap_init: 20000 bytes (1dcf pgs)
NetBSD 1.3G (CATS.3G) #120: Wed Aug 26 01:02:29 BST 1998
ebsa@temporal:/home/voyager/altroot/usr/users/ebsa/netbsd-cur/src/sys/arch/
arm32/compile/CATS.3G
real mem  = 33554432
avail mem = 25292800
using 170 buffers containing 696320 bytes of memory
mainbus0 (root)
cpu0 at mainbus0: SA-110 rev 3 DC enabled IC enabled WB enabled EABT
[cut]
inittodr: 00:16:46.0000 26/08/1998
Clock has gained 0 days 0 hours 3 minutes 0 secs
root file system type: ffs
swapctl: adding /dev/wd0b as swap device at priority 0
Automatic boot in progress: starting file system checks.
/dev/rwd0a: file system is clean; not checking
/dev/rwd0e: file system is clean; not checking
setting tty flags
starting network
[cut]
NetBSD/arm32 (temporal) (fcom)

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NetBSD 1.3G (CATS.3G) #120: Wed Aug 26 01:02:29 BST 1998

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Terminal type? [vt102] 
Don't login as root, use the su command.
temporal# 

Any chance of a trace when you drop into the debugger ?
ne thing to note, the maxproc option will only work as long as
PMAP_STATIC_L1S is not defined as an option in the config file.

CATS kernels should not the same limits as RiscPC ones there should be no
differnece.

Cheers,
				Mark