On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 10:11:43PM +1000, Jenkins, Graham K [IBM GSA] wrote:
> Guys, I've had a number of kernel crashes whilst trying to build
> a new kernel on a 486 with 16Mb memory, with /tmp on a memory filesystem
> in swap space.  Happens about 40 minutes after restarting the 'make'. 
> Unmounting /tmp seemed to solve the problem.
> 
> I don't think its a memory fault - I've seeen a similar thing on another
> machine running NetBSD 1.5
> 
> Anybody else seen this?  And anybody have a fix?

Does the kernel panic ? If so what's the exact message ?
Can you get a stack trace from ddb ?

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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