If memory serves me right, David Wolfskill wrote:
> >Someone should test and commit Tor's patch. I didn't have time to
> >check whether it fixed the problems before I left (and I'm sure as
> >hell not going to update back to -current remotely to check myself :-)
>
> FWIW, I applied that patch to the -CURRENT side of my laptop a couple
> of days ago. Since then, I've been able to do my daily -CURRENT builds
> in multi-user mode, within an X environment, using -j4 on the "make
> buildworld" step.
I did the patch on one of my scratch boxes, and it's allowed me to do
"make release" without the machine dying mid-way through. (i386, UP,
GENERIC kernel, softupdates enabled on all filesystems except /,
multi-user, no X).
There was a bit of discussion when I reported this apparent progress to
-current last week (look for a thread entitled "freelist corruption:
more info").
Bruce.
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