Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 13:58:00 -0800 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: mmap and meteor. Message-ID: <199612182158.NAA06578@rah.star-gate.com>
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Prabably the problem is on the VM system given that mmap seems to work the first few times and then it fails to map all the pages requested. Amancio james@miller.cs.uwm.edu said: > From: Jim Lowe <james@miller.cs.uwm.edu> To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com > Subject: Re: Jim's mixer (jmix) > Yes, I beleive there is something wrong with the mmap system call and > the vm system. I can't tell exactly what it is or why it happens, > but it is a pain in the butt. > About a month ago, I started to investigate the problem, but havn't > been able to pin the darn thing down. I suspect John Dyson might be > able to find it, but I don't think he has a meteor card or uses mmap > quite the way we do. It is a real twisted type problem and the > solution doesn't seem real obvious to me.
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