Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 10:27:58 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Les LaCroix <Les.LaCroix@carleton.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com> Subject: Re: FOLLOWUP: (long) page fault in kernel mode: suggestions? Message-ID: <19980731102758.E7830@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <4144619023.901792783@mochajava>; from Les LaCroix on Thu, Jul 30, 1998 at 09:59:43AM -0500 References: <4144619023.901792783@mochajava>
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On Thursday, 30 July 1998 at 9:59:43 -0500, Les LaCroix wrote: > I pulled my Adaptec 1520 SCSI-2 ISA card, and have been running 2.2.7 now > for over a day w/o a crash. Previously the kernel would panic within a few > hours, whether or not the aic driver was installed, whether or not there was > a device attached to the card. Ah. Glad to see that my hunch was correct. > I did get my hands on a set of 2.2.5 CDs. My intentions are to retrograde > and install the original hardware to see if the problem was introduced in > 2.2.6. But I'm also under the gun to get this box up and running, so I just > can't promise anything. :( I'd be surprised if 2.2.5 makes any difference. The correct way to get rid of a bug is to fix it, not to look for a version which doesn't have it. What you really need to do is to stay with 2.2.6 and build a debug kernel. Then take a dump when it crashes, and get somebody to look at it. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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