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Date:      Tue, 5 Nov 1996 03:28:30 +1100
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        bde@zeta.org.au, jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com
Cc:        current@freebsd.org, dtc@scrooge.ee.swin.oz.au, dyson@freebsd.org, gpalmer@freebsd.org, rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com
Subject:   Re: Request to add this to FAQ re: swap space
Message-ID:  <199611041628.DAA00755@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>> >> Don't change MSG_BSIZE.  Allocation of vm for it is broken except for
>> >> the default size.
>> >
>> >Hmmmmmmmm....  well I've been running with that for quite some time...
>> >set to 16K instead of 4K.
>> 
>> This causes 3 semi-random active pages to be mapped to the end of the
>> message buffer.
>
>How to fix?

I fixed it a while ago and have been waiting for it to be reviewed.

>Nobody mentioned this problem back in February when I originally brought
>it up (see the hackers thread with Subject: "Latest 2.1R panic. Hmm.")

That's because apparently nobody knew about the bug then.

Bruce



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