To: "Simon Evans" <simon@codian.com>
Cc: <port-macppc@NetBSD.org>
Subject: Re: macppc port "unstable" in -current
On 02 Jan 2004 12:58:40 +0100 Aymeric Vincent <Aymeric.Vincent@labri.fr>

> The fact that it would be related to swap is interesting because the
> programs that dump core during a build are mostly sh's, and I suspect
> they are the shells that get swapped out at some point in the build.
> Similarly, a full build of xsrc builds and installs everything fine,
> but the top-level "make" dies, and it most certainly got swapped out
> during the build.
> 
> I will try without swap, thanks.
> 
>  Aymeric
> 
> "Simon Evans" <simon@codian.com> writes:
> 
> > [...] Disabling swap space
> > stabilised things ... doing the same on the Mac also
> > seemed to help.

Here's some negative info:

Fri Jan 02 13:28:52 on t982.rse.com /mnt/mnt/usr/local/src/usr A) uname -a
NetBSD t982.rse.com 1.6ZF NetBSD 1.6ZF (EASTERN-1.6ZF.backside) #0: \
Wed Nov 19 17:40:14 EST 2003  mlr@t982.rse.com:/mnt/mnt/usr/local/src/usrZF\
/src/sys/arch/macppc/compile/EASTERN-1.6ZF.backside macppc

Fri Jan 02 13:41:49 on t982.rse.com /mnt/mnt/usr/local/src/usr A) uptime
 1:43PM  up 22 days, 21:24, 1 user, load averages: 1.23, 1.18, 1.10

Fri Jan 02 13:43:33 on t982.rse.com /mnt/mnt/usr/local/src/usr A) swapctl -l
Device      1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Priority
/dev/sd2b       98304     7364    90940     7%    1
/dev/sd1b       98304        0    98304     0%    2
/dev/sd0b       98304     3148    95156     3%    3
Total          294912    10512   284400     4%

Special kernel for mac 7500 w/G3 processor replacement: kernel
stripped of anything that a 7500 doesn't have: all usb, all audio, all
firewire, and lot of pci, from the 15 Nov 2003 ftp sources.

Swap seems to be ok. Has been running great: mozilla, builds (X and
NetBSD), etc, etc.  Whatever happened would seem to have happend after
15 Nov.

Kind regards,

-Mike