From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 27 18: 4:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from vulture.prod.itd.earthlink.net (vulture.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.121.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A36CC14BF3 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 18:04:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from binderj@earthlink.net) Received: from sdn-ar-001catpalP146.dialsprint.net (sdn-ar-001catpalP146.dialsprint.net [206.133.188.82]) by vulture.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA08109 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 18:04:52 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 18:03:53 -0800 (PST) From: james binder X-Sender: binderj@binder.home.net To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: FreeBSD page faults Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have installed FreeBSD 3.3, 3.4 by downloading essentials to a dos partition and using the 2 floppy method. I use M-Tech motherboard with Cyrix PR200 6x86mx with SIS chipset 5582. Hard drive is a Conner 1GB ide and Quantum 9.1 GB, both LBA mode, but most recently only on the 1GB using whole drive. I have 64mb FP memory. I use file system default sizes when installing. I have a Matrox Mystique video card. This equipment has been running various releases of Slackware linux for 3 years and (when I still used it-win95), without any problems, and most certainly no page faults. (occasional SEGV) I tried Freebsd because I like the organization and systematic approach and the cvsup. I read where it is "rock solid" so I figured "let's try it." I get random and very seldom page faults (no page present) such as when compiling a new kernel or unpacking TeXmf port. My assumption is that one should never encounter a page fault with FreeBSD otherwise it could hardly be considered "rock solid" and so I wonder what it is about my setup that does not work properly with this OS. I have been reading the newsgroup and gnats database and some archives of lists but have not found anything that seems similar. I see in the hardware lists that Cyrix 6x86mx should not be problem so I wonder about the SIS-5582. I have been at this for about 3 months so far. Jim Binder binderj@earthlink.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message