From owner-freebsd-bugs Fri Apr 3 17:47:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA02054 for freebsd-bugs-outgoing; Fri, 3 Apr 1998 17:47:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cinnamon.michvhf.com (cinnamon.michvhf.com [209.57.60.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA02031 for ; Fri, 3 Apr 1998 17:47:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vev@michvhf.com) Received: (qmail 28940 invoked from network); 4 Apr 1998 01:47:22 -0000 Received: from paprika.michvhf.com (HELO michvhf.com) (209.57.60.12) by cinnamon.michvhf.com with SMTP; 4 Apr 1998 01:47:22 -0000 Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1998 20:47:47 -0500 (est) From: Vince Vielhaber To: bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Running out of places to turn... Message-ID: Organization: Right X-X-Sender: vev@cinnamon.michvhf.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org For a quick rundown, I installed 2.2.5 from CD on a P150 (Tyan MB) with 256MB Ram, a 4GB and 6.4GB IDE and a pair of 9GB SCSI drives connected to a 2940UW (that I have set to a max transfer rate of 10Mbps). This is a news machine and I have the the ccd driver configured into the kernel and I'm running the 2-9GB drives as one 18GB drive. The other kernel changes are maxusers set to 256 and the mem size items set at 262100. The machine has been failing and rebooting (without a core dump from whatever caused it) more than once daily. I sent a message to questions and got a few responses but nothing that helped. I sent a note to the inn-workers list (since it's a list I'm subscribed to) and got the suggestion to try dropping the max transfer rate on the scsi's from 20 to 10mbps. Crash dumps were also recommended. With it still failing I enabled crash dumps but that was only a disaster as my 256MB swap file was apparantely too small for the dump the 256MB machine generated and it overwrote the disklabel (at least that's all I could come up with for a cause). After getting it all running again (without crash dumps) I was still experiencing crashes so I looked at INN's configuration. There were a couple of differences there so I made the appropriate changes and tried again. Just now (after all day) it crashed again :( but this time I got the following on the screen: ----- Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode fault virtual address = 0xc72074d2 fault code = supervisor write, page not present instruction pointer = 0x8:0xf016ab20 stack pointer = 0x10:0xefbffac0 frame pointer = 0x10:0xefbffac4 code segment = base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1 processor eflags = interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL=0 current process = 539 (find) interrupt mask = bio panic:page fault syncing disks... ----- I sure hope the above helps and that I didn't write all that down for nothing :) So does any of that mean anything? BTW, find was transversing (sp?) the news spool and it crashes almost every time news.daily runs. Vince. -- ========================================================================== Vince Vielhaber -- KA8CSH email: vev@michvhf.com flame-mail: /dev/null # include TEAM-OS2 Online Searchable Campground Listings http://www.camping-usa.com "I'm just not a fan of promoting stupidity! We have elected officials for that job!" -- Rock ========================================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message