From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 19 11:48:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from malkav.snowmoon.com (ip-208-20-126-237.cdcsd.k12.ny.us [208.20.126.237]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 85F1B37B42C for ; Sat, 19 Aug 2000 11:48:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 32309 invoked from network); 19 Aug 2000 18:48:56 -0000 Received: from localhost.snowmoon.com (HELO localhost) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.snowmoon.com with SMTP; 19 Aug 2000 18:48:56 -0000 Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 14:48:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Jaime To: Matt Thomas Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE is about as stable as windows98 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 19 Aug 2000, Matt Thomas wrote: > I have been having a problem for quite some time now with FreeBSD bombing > out with a Page Fault 12 error in the kernel. I have been reading the You sure that your hardware isn't broken? This sounds like the symptoms that I had on a system which had a semi-functional mother board. Its average uptime was between 3 and 20 days. I saw it page fault and reboot often enough to make me wonder where the legendary stability of Unix was. (This was with 2.2.1 and 2.2.5 when I was new to FreeBSD.) I discovered the problem when I shut down the system for a day to look for bad RAM. Turned out the whole darn mother board was probably screwed, especially the BIOS and some of the I/O. FWIW, I'm running 4.1-Stable on several computers right now (including a Pentium 90 with a mod_perl BBS on it) and haven't seen a single problem yet. They're both running beautifully. Until I tried to get Cyrus to work on it, that is. :) Jaime To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message