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Date:      Fri, 28 Nov 1997 22:27:32 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Konrad Heuer <kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Problems with 2.2.2-RELEASE and more than 64 MB of main memory?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971128222708.22417G-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199711211231.NAA14339@gwdu60.gwdg.de>

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On Fri, 21 Nov 1997, Konrad Heuer wrote:

> In the range above about 75 MB memory allocated and used, the kernel
> panics. Error messages are like this:
> 
> vm_page_free: pindex(16415), busy(0), PG_BUSY(0), hold(0)
> panic: vm_page_free: freeing busy page
> 
> As soon as I omit the `options MAXMEM' line in the kernel configuration
> file and thus only use 64 MB of main memory, the system works very fine.
> 
> So - I'm not sure: Is possibly one of my four SIMM modules (each 32 MB)
> physically defect, or is there a problem with the kernel and more than
> 64 MB?

I would suspect bad SIMMs.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major





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