[plt-scheme] v300 on NetBSD

From: Jed Davis (jdev at panix.com)
Date: Mon Jan 9 15:18:58 EST 2006

I'm encountering, while building v300 on NetBSD/i386 2.0, what looks
like the same hang that reported here earlier with OpenBSD.  The cause
of the slowness is swapping; the mzscheme process seems to be
allocating an unbounded amount of memory -- or at least it didn't stop
before it got to 1GB when I let it run overnight -- and is spending
most of its time being paged in/out (and thus with its context in
biowait via the page fault handler) rather than making progress.

2.0 on i386 has non-executable stacks by default; could that be
related somehow?  It doesn't do stack protection, and USE_TOPDOWN_VM
(which makes addresses assigned to successive non-fixed mmap's start
under the stack and decrease, instead of starting above the heap and
increasing) isn't enabled by default.

A ktrace(1) of signal handling shows that the only non-PROF, non-CHLD
signal the mzscheme takes is a SEGV, type SEGV_MAPERR, for an address
256 less than the base of the mzscheme executable's mapping; that may
well be normal.

So... where do I go from here?

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