XENIX 286 crash

[Chip Salzenberg]

In article <1988Jan29.180354.15087 at gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> romwa at gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Mark Dornfeld) writes:
>I have a Xenix 2.2.1 system regularly doing a panic (5 times
>today).  The console error message is usually like this:
>
>TRAP 000C in SYSTEM
>ax=0000, bx=08DC, cx=002E, dx=0006, si=0000, di=0716
>bp=0316, fl=0212, uds=0018, es=0070
>pc=0030:5B6D, ksp=03F2, ss:sp=0058:0314
>panic: stack fault

My system (also 2.2.1) was doing this too.  Since the kernel is linked in
Medium model, the near data (DGROUP) includes both 'near' data and the
stack.  On a hunch, I ran /usr/sys/conf/configure and lowered some values
(max buffers, max message queues, max clists, etc.).  The stack faults went
away.

My guess:  If your configuration has too much stuff in the data segment,
you may be leaving too little room in DGROUP for the kernel stack.

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