Subject: Re: panic: ptdi %x
To: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@netbsd.org>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-i386
Date: 11/03/1998 20:09:11
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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