Subject: Re: further vm adventures
To: Chuck Cranor <chuck@maria.wustl.edu>
From: None <jiho@postal.c-zone.net>
List: tech-kern
Date: 04/27/1998 12:21:31
On 27-Apr-98 Chuck Cranor wrote:
>> I am unable to use ddb in this situation, because although I can switch VTs
>> to enter ddb, once leaving ddb there is no way to get back to the X desktop.
>
> you've just got to find the correct key. ctrl-alt-f7 works for me (using
> pcvt).
Hey, I hope so....I'm using pcvt too. Definitely will try that! Thanks!
> that's interesting, but there is not enough info to know what is going
> on yet. you say the 320K returns to the free list when the X server
> exits? in that case, it would be useful to look at the output of
> ddb's "show map/f" on the X server's map from "exited" to "execed" to
> "exited" and see what mappings changed. i'd prob. comment out the
> call to _vm_object_print() in _vm_map_print() to reduce the noise in
> ddb's output.
I agree there's not enough info, and hopefully I can get enough if I can use
ddb....
--Jim Howard <jiho@mail.c-zone>
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