Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 15:10:38 -0400 From: "Matt Thomas" <cdt4668@bellsouth.net> To: "Jaime" <jaime@malkav.snowmoon.com> Cc: <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE is about as stable as windows98 Message-ID: <NEBBILHCELMBGLJMJBGGMEJACPAA.cdt4668@bellsouth.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008191444280.32087-100000@malkav.snowmoon.com>
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Jamie, I guess that could be the problem but I'm not too sure how to go about checking to see if the hardware is bad. It seems to be running fine with no problems. It's a p3-550 with 296 megs of RAM. I have yet to see a problem with it, so I was assuming it was the OS. I had seen a msg from a jim flowers awhile back talking about this problem and it seemed like it was a known problem, let me paste the msg in here for ya. It reads as follows: I noticed in cvsuping RELENG_4 day before yesterday it came back as 4.1-RC. Does that also address the network stack panics? Jim Flowers <jflowers@ezo.net> #4 ranked ISP on C|NET #1 in Ohio On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Paul Saab wrote: > There are known panics in the network stack in 4.0-RELEASE. You should > really upgrade to 4.1-RELEASE. > > paul > > Jim Flowers (jflowers@peony.ezo.net) wrote: > > We have been using fbsd 4.0-RELEASE on a number of router applications > > (IPV4). Recently we have switched to new hardware and now we get fatal > > faults periodically. > > > > Typically these run with a minimum kernal using ipfw and natd and not much > > more. 32 MB memory. > > > > Does this indicate that my new hardware is probably not going to work with > > fbsd 4.0? > > > > Anything I can do to find out > > > > message on fatal fault --------------------------- > > > > Fatal Trap 12: Page Fault While In Kernel Mode > > Fault Virtual Address =0x8 > > Fault Code =Supervisor Read, Page Not Present > > Instruction Pointer =0x8:;0xc018c370 > > Stack Pointer =0x10:0xxc470ee3c > > Frame Pointer =0x10:0xc470ee44 > > Code Segment =Base 0x0, Limit 0xfffff,Type 0x1b > > Processor Eflags =Interrupt Enabled,Resume,IOPL=0 > > Current Process =171 (Ping) > > Interrupt Mask = > > Trap Number =12 > > Panic:Page Fault So From what I gathered it was a network stack problem. I ran this same exact hardware and configuration on 4.0-STABLE for atleast a 90-100 day uptime. I just don't know what to believe anymore, if it was a KNOWN network stack issue or if it is just incompatible hardware with 4.1. Sigh, I just want to get this ironed out so I know I won't wake up in the morning with a downed server, Thanks for your time jaime, looking forward to hearing more on the subject. Matthew Thomas -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Jaime Sent: Saturday, August 19, 2000 2:49 PM To: Matt Thomas Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE is about as stable as windows98 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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