Subject: Re: anyone seen this?
To: Jonathan O'Brien <obrien@phoenix.sfsu.edu>
From: Frank van der Linden <frank@wins.uva.nl>
List: port-sparc
Date: 12/03/1997 21:15:10
On Wed, Dec 03, 1997 at 12:01:51PM -0800, Jonathan O'Brien wrote:
 
> It's not exactly like the above, but I've been seeing the following
> panics ever since the last round of sparc changes. It seems to me that
> having my SS2 use a serial console aggravates the problem. When the 
> system first comes up, if I hit return on the serial console, then
> telnet in from another system, I almost always get a panic.

> BTW, I'm not using MFS, but it is compiled into the kernel.
> 
> I just noticed that I didn't have any swap configured (forgot to add
> it to the fstab). Is swap required?

Not 'required' if you are certain that you are never going to use
more than your physical amount of memory.. But how likely is that?
NetBSD will crash eventually when you run out of VM, so try enabling
that swapspace and see if it still happens.

- Frank