Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 14:43:25 -0700 From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@ki.net> Cc: current@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intelligent Debugging Tools... Message-ID: <199604232143.OAA23611@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 23 Apr 1996 16:02:04 EDT." <Pine.NEB.3.93.960423154553.23204B-100000@freebsd.ki.net>
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Hi, It will help if you post your hardware configuration. A few months ago there was a nasty PCI interaction in the kernel which caused my system to crash so glad that whatever it was is gone 8) Cheers, Amancio >>> "Marc G. Fournier" said: > > Hi... > > What would it take to either create software for debugging > hardware, and/or add appropriate debugging to the kernel that would > improve debugging of hardware problems? > > Erk...as far as software is concerned, maybe something that > you could run in single user mode that would completely thrash the > RAM, doing read/writes to *all* the memory looking for any corruption? > Or something else that could be turned on against /dev/rsd0b to totally > thrash the swap space on a drive? > > As far as the kernel is concerned, I'm getting panics in VM > and keep getting told its hardware problems...fine, but there *has* > to be a better way of isolating the problem then replacing bits and > pieces until the problem seems to go away. For instance, when I get > a VM fault...what exactly *is* the problem? Is it a problem with > the swap space (ie. hard drives) or RAM? > > My -stable machine is a 4 month old computer, and all the > parts are new in her...last I've been asked is "when am I going to > replace the machine"...replace it with what? its all new...if there > was some way of narrowing down the offending parts and replacing > those, that would be great...but just going out and buying a new machine > is not the answer, cause the part that is wrong with *this* machine > might exist in the next machine *shrug* > > Does this make any sense? > > Marc G. Fournier scrappy@ki.net > Systems Administrator @ ki.net scrappy@freebsd.org > >
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