From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 18 02:44:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA04441 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 18 Jan 1998 02:44:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA04150 for ; Sun, 18 Jan 1998 02:38:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA06215; Sat, 17 Jan 1998 21:19:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 21:19:42 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Neal Rigney cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: double kernel faults In-Reply-To: <026901bd22bd$84ded000$2e00e5cd@dilbert.pernet.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Fri, 16 Jan 1998, Neal Rigney wrote: > > I've got a news machine that continually page faults(I'm tracking the > problem down right now), but here's the interesting question: > > When it page faults, it ALWAYS(with this error) faults a second time. In > other words, I get "page fault while in kernel mode" etc(the REAL error I > want to look at) immediately followed by another fault that of course > scrolls all the information from the first fault off the screen. > > So, should I _really_ worry about the second fault, or chaulk it up to the > first fault making the system go nuts? I'd be more interested in what the second fault is so we can resolve that so we can actually *see* the details on the first fault ;-) Does the `scroll lock-up arrow' scrollback work during a panic? I forgot. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major