chuck wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 09:20:26AM -0500, Michael wrote:
> > >Ah.  This explains things (Sparc64, -current, box runs quite solid in
> > >normal operation, but if I run Mozilla and *then* do things that cause
> > >swapping, I've seen more than one hard system lockup).
> > 
> > Try the patch Chuck Silvers posted here (and on port-sparc64 ) a couple 
> > of days ago. On my boxes ( U1 and U10 ) it prevents the kernel panics, 
> > instead the processes in question mostly get a bus error and dump core 
> > ( although there were a few instances of zombie processes ). Still far 
> > from being satisfactory but it keeps your box running.
> 
> the application core dumps when pthread-using processes are paged out
> are a problem on all platforms.
> 
> charles posted a work-around a while back that should help:
> 
> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-kern/2005/01/06/0006.html

any idea when these workarounds will hit -current? :-)

glen