Subject: Re: overfilling mfs partitions larger than 600M causes kernel panics
To: None <port-macppc@netbsd.org>
From: Hernani Marques Madeira <hernani@vecirex.net>
List: port-macppc
Date: 11/20/2004 22:31:56
On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 10:15:04PM +0100, Timo Sch=F6ler wrote:

> >What it could be done for all ports is to not allow the creation of a=20
> >MFS partition
> >that was specified to be greater than RAM+SWAP.
>=20
> uhm, on macppc (i.e. my G4, see my post before) it crashed with MFS <=20
> RAM. everytime.

Well, yes, I got offtopic there. In this case there's absolutely no problem=
 on
hpcarm unless you specify some mfs partition that takes all the free RAM (i=
n my
case 15 M - after booting up) without having some SWAP space and you begin =
to
overfill it, what would set it "unusable".

> regards,
>=20
> timo

--=20
hernani