Re: Is amd64 ready for the desktop?

[Aleksey Cheusov <cheusov%tut.by@localhost>]

 >> > Although mplayer works it seems to fail on some certain files.  Under
 >> > i386 I never had any problems.
 >> 
 >> mplayer often segfaults on my i386 too on some files. As far as I
 >> understand the problem is that NetBSD has too small stack by default,
 >> only 2 megabytes.  But it works just fine after increasing stack limit
 >> to 20Mb. Again this is on my NetBSD-4/i386.

> Hmm.  I suppose it would be more noticable on amd64 because 64 bit
> systems use the stack faster.

It is interesting is this issue with stack size and mplayer
reproducible.  That is, does it still segfaults after increasing stack
size limit on your system?

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Best regards, Aleksey Cheusov.