On 03 Nov 1998 18:44:21 -0800 
 cgd@netbsd.org (Chris G. Demetriou) wrote:

 > >     dd if=/dev/rwd0f of=/dev/null bs=8192k
 > > 
 > > and the system promptly panic'ed.  In retrospect, that seems like a
 > > large block size, but I didn't expect a panic... is this a bug, or
 > > operator error?
 > 
 > bug (known to at least some), i dunno if it's fixed in -current.

It's due to a design flaw in the old pmap.  It's fixed in the new
pmap for UVM.

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