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

["Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Urias McCullough" <umccullough@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 11/6/06, Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> ...
> > Probably related are rare sudden reboots, and the weak kernel heap
> > implementation (to be replaced by a slab allocator).
> If it helps to have a test case, "rare sudden reboots" are fairly 
> easy to
> replicate on my machine by attempting to launch firefox multiple 
> times in a
> row... on the 3rd or 4th attempt, Haiku usually reboots for me.
> 
> Of course, the amount of code running there would probably make it 
> pretty
> nasty to debug :(

Well, it's a kernel problem - no matter what you do to reproduce the 
problem, you only have to search in the kernel for the answer; it 
doesn't get worse when using a big app :-)
The faster and more reliable one can reproduce the problem, the better.

Bye,
   Axel.