Subject: Re: Time to get off the fence.....
To: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 04/22/2000 08:46:59
On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, der Mouse wrote:

> For what it may be worth...my experience indicates that there is
> something damnably subtle wrong with NetBSD on the SS1+, but not the
> IPX.  I haven't had an opportunity to find out whether it's an issue on
> an SS1 or not, but it well could be.
> 
> The symptom is that every once in a while, usually under relatively
> high CPU load (multiple processes runnable), *something* will corrupt a
> small amount of storage.  I don't know exactly what is going on; I
> suspect the corruption actually applies to a window of registers rather
> than a memory area per se, because it produces a coredump far more
> often than would otherwise make sense.  The coredumps are usually
> "impossible" (as in, foo() called through "if (i > 0) foo(i);" but i is
> negative - and the code was compiled -O0).
> 
	Have you tried going back to a stock 1.3.2 or 1.2.1 install to
	see if it occurs there?

		David/absolute