Re: NetBSD/vax kernel seems stable now

[Johnny Billquist <bqt%softjar.se@localhost>]

Tom Ivar Helbekkmo skrev:
> I wrote:
>
> > Well, the 4000/500 is still cleandir'ing... :)
>
> It was chugging along nicely, with the build proceeding in one window,
> and a top(1) running in another, until just now.  I noticed that it had
> allocated a few megs of swap along the way, without crashing, which is
> good.  Then I typed 'q' at the top(1), but I never got the shell prompt
> back.

Hmm. Bad news...

> By the time I got to the console, the system was on its way back up,
> having somehow not entered DDB.  I don't know whether it actually dumped
> core along the way: savecore said "/dev/ra0b: device busy" when it ran.

I haven't seen a working savecore on the vax ever, I think. :-)
(Well, for NetBSD that is.)

> I notice there have been some more changes in /sys/arch/vax, so I'll be
> getting those, and building another kernel, before restarting the
> building of the world...

Anyone who can tell what have happened recently?

        Johnny

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