From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 30 17:58:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA05831 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 30 Jul 1998 17:58:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA05739 for ; Thu, 30 Jul 1998 17:58:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA00951; Fri, 31 Jul 1998 10:28:00 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id KAA09784; Fri, 31 Jul 1998 10:27:58 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980731102758.E7830@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 10:27:58 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Les LaCroix , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Thomas David Rivers Subject: Re: FOLLOWUP: (long) page fault in kernel mode: suggestions? References: <4144619023.901792783@mochajava> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <4144619023.901792783@mochajava>; from Les LaCroix on Thu, Jul 30, 1998 at 09:59:43AM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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