[comp.os.vms] REFCNTNEG bugchecks

gkn@SDS.SDSC.EDU (Gerard K. Newman) (11/03/87)

For the past few months I've been getting an occasional REFCNTNEG bugcheck,
which I believe is provoked by a large image (12K virtual pages) doing an
image dump.  This process has a sizable global section mapped into its
address space, and if another process unmaps the section while the image is
dumping it will sometimes produce the bugcheck.  I've not dug through the
dumps much (memory management problems are a b*tch ;-), so I don't have
any more clue than that (I am 100% certain, however, about how to provoke
this behavior).

[not really expecting an answer...]    Has anyone else seen this ?

gkn
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