Erik Bertelsen wrote:
> 
> Since the introduction of UVM on the mac68k port a few days ago, I've had
> a couple of panics when I loaded several applications.

You and several other people :-)
 
> A few minutes ago, I got the panic described below when starting a
> compilation under Emacs in an X session on my Q610 running NetBSD-current,
> with a kernel built from today's sup. Before UVM it has been able to take
> significantly greater loads without panic'ing.
> 
> Machine: Q610, 52 MB of RAM, NetBSD/mac68k current, kernel as of today,
> userland a few days old. 

[snip]

This is the same panic several other people are seeing, I believe.

> I send this message to the mac68k list in case this is a known problem,
> such as an indication of the need to change some parameters in the kernel
> configuration file.

The usual suggestion is to bump up NKMEMCLUSTERS, but I believe that
someone upped it to 4096, and they were still getting the problem.  I
think that there is a small problem with UVM....

> Of course, if the problem persists, the next step will be a PR )-:

Perhaps.  I don't think that Ken (or anyone else) has filed a PR yet, but
the port-master does know about it, I believe.

Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
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