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Date:      Fri, 2 Aug 2002 11:56:45 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
To:        mcrogerm@stjohn.ac.th (Roger Merritt)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Trap 12 page fault in kernel mode
Message-ID:  <200208021556.g72Fujt16128@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20020802125336.007d78c0@stjohn.stjohn.ac.th> from "Roger Merritt" at Aug 02, 2002 12:53:36 PM

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> 
> I've been having problems running portsdb and portupgrade remotely for a
> couple of months now. When I use SSH to log in and run portsdb I get a hell
> of a lot of error messages (mostly saying "" doesn't exist and the
> dependency list is incomplete) and after a couple of hours the server
> reboots. Today I caught it while the screen was still displaying the error
> message, "Trap 12 page fault while in kernel mode". Today I was running the
> file output by 'portversion -c > needs.update'. The machine had been
> chugging away merrily for a couple of hours downloading and compiling when
> the same thing happened.
> 
> I guess from the term "page fault" there has been a glitch in virtual
> memory. Is this a symptom that my hard drive might be developing problems?
> Oddly enough, I've run similar commands from the console and they've
> completed without a reboot.

The term "page fault" just means it had to page out some memory to
disk or get it back again.  The virtual memory system pages so swap
space.   

I don't know about the other messages though.  I supposes they could 
also relate to running out of memory and swap space but really don't
know.

////jerry

> 
> -- 
> Roger
> 

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