In article <20020824190858.6901.qmail@schnarff.com>
alex@schnarff.com writes:

> When I tried to compile bash-2.05 again, it got much futher -- apparently it 
> had found the swap space -- but after ~10 minutes of compilation, it 
> spontaneously rebooted. The poster who had mentioned adding swap had warned 
> that there were problems with swap, and that systems using it suffered from 
> instability at times.

I saw this sort of problems in the past, but I don't see this recently.
Which kernel are you using?

>                       Is this still true, or has anything been done about 
> it? ...

The pmap (lowest part of virtual memory management) code of sh3 ports
was completely rewritten in May 2002 (sys/arch/sh3/sh3/pmap.c rev 1.40).
I'm not convinced, but probably this solved the problem.

-- 
ITOH Yasufumi