> I wrote:
> 
> > Now, I've found a way to work around it:  If I don't use a partition
> > for swapping, but instead only swap to a file, it's OK.
> 
> Not quite, actually.  It's more stable this way, but will eventually
> crash with a "trap: trap type 2" or "panic: rensa".  Now, when my VAX
> starts speaking Swedish to me, I suspect that something really evil
> must be going on.  :-)
> 
Oh, well, "rensa" is a function in pmap.c. If this happens something
probably has destroyed the pte or reverse-mapping info. trap type 2
is "reserved operand fault".

> I'm still trying to build a new userland, in the hope that things will
> improve once I have binaries built with the new libraries, for the 4K
> page size configuration.
> 
Your panics should not be related to the binary pagesize. This sounds
like something else, but I don't know what.

-- Ragge