From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Nov 5 08:27:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA29832 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 08:27:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from macon.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (macon2.Informatik.Uni-Tuebingen.De [134.2.13.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA29803 for ; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 08:27:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sperber@brabantio.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de) Received: from brabantio.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (brabantio.Informatik.Uni-Tuebingen.De [134.2.12.25]) by macon.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAA31262 for ; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 17:26:49 +0100 Received: (from sperber@localhost) by brabantio.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (AIX4.2/UCB 8.7/8.7) id RAA19114; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 17:26:48 +0100 (MET) To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CPU halts using mpg123 and OSS References: <199810142222.PAA00592@B1FF.nas.nasa.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 1.4) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 From: sperber@Informatik.Uni-Tuebingen.De (Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]) Date: 05 Nov 1998 17:26:48 +0100 Message-ID: Lines: 21 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.33/XEmacs 21.0 - "Irish Goat" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id IAA29812 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Here's what the OSS people have to say on problems with OSS on FreeBSD. Can anyone in the know clarify what the status is? I couldn't find anything in the freebsd-bugs archive, but maybe I don't know where to look. 4Front> This is a known problem.....we have found a major bug with 4Front> FreeBSD 3.0 and 2.2.7 for that matter and have notified the 4Front> kernel group....thus far we haven't heard anything. 4Front> 4Front> THe problem seems to be in a kernel function call 4Front> vm_page_alloc_contig() which allocates kernel memory and for 4Front> some reason it's not doing the right thing. OSS requires this 4Front> and every now and then we are given some bogus memory address 4Front> by the kernel and that's where it crashes. -- Cheers =8-} Mike Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message