FreeLists / openbeos / [openbeos] Re: openbeos Digest V6 #213

["Ithamar Adema" <iradema@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Axel,

> There currently are 2 major stability problems in Haiku:
> 1) the reference counting with vm_cache/vm_area isn't safe - I haven't
> search for the actual error yet, but it sometimes crashes with a
> debugger message that suggests this is the case
> 2) the VM does not have a page scanner (the one we have is broken and I
> disabled it); it never chooses any page to be dispensable.
I just did a build of Haiku, and tried copying the content of the
image file from within Haiku to a real partition (using QEMU). This
failed (crashes in VM) until I increased the memory allocated to Haiku
in QEMU.

I presume this is a valid test case of the problems your describing?
If so, I'll start looking into the VM to see if I can help you fix
this :D

It would simply be great to have Haiku stable enough to be able to,
once the basics of the network stack are finished, do development from
within Haiku itself....

Ithamar.