Re: [9fans] problems with 8l

["Skip Tavakkolian" <fst@centurytel.net>]

Excellent deduction.  I disabled the CPU external cache setting
(apparently a default) and the linking problem has gone away.  I was
also having other stability problems (acme, and rio each crashed
during the last week) that I expect this will fix.

To paraphrase 'Wayne and Garth', I'm not worthy...
Thanks.

> actually, based on some of the previous postings, i was starting to wonder
> whether you might have something wrong with the underlying system.
> the marshal error, for instance, was in the following
> 	d = dirfstat(fd);
> 	if(d == nil)
> 		return 0;
> 	rv = strcmp(d->name, "cons") == 0;
> where d->name was nil, which looked unlikely when i checked dirfstat.
>
> on an IBM Thinkpad T23, i found i needed to set maxmem to exclude
> some peculiar NVRAM that's in the top of the address space, or i got
> all manner of strange errors (with 3rd edition, and it's still set for 4th
> so i'm unsure whether i still need it).  as another example, a system with
> an AGP card that relied on stealing processor memory had trouble when
> the borrowed memory was also allocated by the operating system.
> finally, a machine with faulty memory produced the usual assortment of
> unpredictable results.