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From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: KM_ALLOC: corrupt buckets
Message-ID: <10762@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 10 Apr 90 23:06:40 GMT
References: <142859@felix.UUCP>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
Lines: 19

In article <142859@felix.UUCP> cal@felix.UUCP (Cal J. Myers) writes:
> We use to get these all the time some time, 3 or 4 a day.  At first
> DEC support sent us several lat patches.  But the one routine that
> ended up fixing it was init_sysent.o.  Output of what:
> 
> init_sysent.o
> 	init_sysent.c	9.1BLD	(ULTRIX)	11/4/88
> 
> Since we installed this we haven't had any problems.  Just for the curious
> we have an 8820 with Ultrix 3.1.

From previous references to this problem, this particular patch probably
only applies to multi-processor systems.  I beleive it marks one syscall
as non-reentrant (or whatever the multi-processor buzzword is).

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