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From: mrapple@quack.kfu.com (Nick Sayer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Some bug reports
Message-ID: <f0U0DZw@quack.kfu.com>
Date: 22 Mar 93 17:40:16 GMT
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I have looked in the official bug list on agate and don't see these
listed, so I thought I'd pass them along and see what you all thought.

If you're running X and the kernel panics, the panic code ought to do
some sort of screen reset. Otherwise the system just seems to
freeze. My natural reaction was to whomp on the keyboard to see if it
was stuck or something, which no doubt aborted the memory dump, which
kept savecore from saving anything useful.

I find that I have to increase KMEM_MAPENT to 10000 to keep the
kmem_malloc: kmem_map too small panics from hapening. I have 16M of RAM
and make heavy use of NFS and X.

The .l file for vtwm 5.1 makes uncompilable code under 386bsd. Running
that file through Sun's lex makes compilable code. Ergo a bug in lex?
I could try diffing, but I imagine there's more different than similar
in the two .c files. Ditto for olvwm's .l file if YYDEBUG is defined as
1.

If these have been seen before, then I appologise. Could anyone tell me
were a more up-to-date bug list is kept?

Still, I say it's not bad for free.

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