From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 28 22:27:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA08778 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 28 Nov 1997 22:27:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA08773 for ; Fri, 28 Nov 1997 22:27:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id WAA22457; Fri, 28 Nov 1997 22:27:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 22:27:32 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Konrad Heuer cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with 2.2.2-RELEASE and more than 64 MB of main memory? In-Reply-To: <199711211231.NAA14339@gwdu60.gwdg.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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