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From: kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph Kukulies)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: bad block.memtop (?)
Date: 30 Apr 1993 16:24:04 GMT
Organization: I.Physikalisches Institut RWTH-Aachen
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In article <1993Apr29.115727.26505@cnplss5.cnps.philips.nl>, rooij@mozart.cft.philips.nl (Guido van Rooij) writes:

>kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph Kukulies) writes:
>
>
>]When doing a cd to a certain directory, I always get
>
>]free(2c108) bad block.memtop = 2c800 membot = 23504.
>
>]I have seen this as well on another system (386BSD), so it cannot be
>]unique to my configuration. 
>
>Maybe you could be a bit more specific; what is that certain directory
>under waht circumstances, what's your hardware etc.
>
>-Guido

I have a 486/33 8MB 200 MB IDE. 5MB swap one partitition for everything else. I'm running X386 (ET4000 server), hand patched 0.1 (wdc0/fdc0 patch, some patches required to run X11). Very often I get a csh coredump and/or the Xserver
dies. This "bad block.memtop" message only seems to appear when I'm running
X with a csh in xterm. I just tried to reproduce the error logging in over telnetd and the problem does not seem to appear.

--Chris
Christoph P. U. Kukulies
kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de
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