I've been putting off reporting this because I had hoped that compiling
new kernels would fix it.  Alas...

NetBSD on my pmaxen (4 up and running right now with 1 as a fileserver
for the others, serving /usr) is in general remarkably stable.  I'm
serving http off of several and will soon be serving ftp.  However...

Compiling stuff seems to throw all the reliability out the window.  If
I compile one thing at a time, I can often squeak by (but not always) and
if I try to do more than one the system performance will noticibly suffer,
weird things will happen (like on shell will become unresponsive while
another will not) and the machine eventually crashes, sometimes giving a
panic message, sometimes not.

Today's most recent message read:

trapDump(trap)
TLB miss (load or instr. fetch: ADR 24 PC 800d3e78 CR 30000108 SR fc34 RA 800d3e74 code 0
external interrupt ADR 0 PC 80031294 CR 80000900 SR fc34 RA 0
(repeated twice)
(somet other external interrupt messages)
system call: ADR 9a730 PC 9b7f4 CR 20 SR ff3c RA 2e864 code 0
(3 more TLB miss messages)
system call: ADR 7ffffa18 PC pbd88 CR 20 SR ff3c RA 9b880 code -199\
Panic: trap
(more messages, failure to dump, etc. followed by reboot)


Is this the same interrupt handling problem that sometimes surfaces at
boot time?  Any advice?

Thanks,

	-- Todd, cactus@hks.net

[PS: Thanks, Ted.  The "bootpath" was what I needed.]