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Date:      Sat, 17 Jan 1998 21:19:42 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Neal Rigney <neal@pernet.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: double kernel faults
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980117211850.6065P-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <026901bd22bd$84ded000$2e00e5cd@dilbert.pernet.net>

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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





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