The venerable X/mmap problem

[Justin Hibbits]

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 7:38 PM, Justin Hibbits <jrh29 at alumni.cwru.edu>wrote:

> I think that mmap() problem from a year ago (physical memory isn't mapped
> correctly so writes to the end cause problems) has come back.  I just
> installed Nathan's 20100418-SNAP snapshot on my G4, and subsequently svn
> up'd and rebuilt world/kernel.  Since then, going into X causes the machine
> to hang within a few minutes.  Staying out of X it does not hang.
>
> - Justin
>

Nevermind, this isn't the same bug.  I just reverted to pre-softupdate
journaling, and my machine has been up for a half hour, X running, and
compiling, without hanging, so I can safely blame this on SUJ, not on the
mmap bug.

- Justin