graphics on G4

[Peter Grehan]

Hi Justin,

>An oddity I've found with FreeBSD/ppc on my G4 MDD --
>when I do anything with graphics, after a while the
>whole machine just hangs when I try to spawn a new
>process.  It's not a deterministic problem, it just
>happens 'eventually', but nearly 100% of the time it
>does happen

 The framebuffer uses a large chunk of kernel VM when mmap'd.
Are you able to dump some vm stats while doing this e.g.
sysctl vm.kvm_free ?

later,

Peter.