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Date:      Fri, 23 Nov 2001 21:23:00 -0500
From:      "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>
To:        "Tim Wiess" <twiess@ahaza.com>, <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Problems with Dual Athlons
Message-ID:  <001101c1748e$f39830a0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>
References:  <20011123144529.A5628@ahaza.com>

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Tim,

If you build a debug kernel and enable crash dumps, then you'll have all the
stuff anyone on -hackers will need to help track down your problem.  See the
FreeBSD Developers Handbook, section 15.1, for information on how to enable
crash dumps and perform crash analysis.  You can create a debug kernel by
doing a "config -g KERNEL" instead of the normal "config KERNEL".

--
Matt Emmerton

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Wiess" <twiess@ahaza.com>
To: <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Friday, November 23, 2001 5:45 PM
Subject: Problems with Dual Athlons


> Hello all,
> I've recently put together a dual Athlon system, and unfortunately so far
I
> have had nothing but problems running FreeBSD on it. I have gone through
many
> of the archives in the hackers, bugs, and smp lists, and while most
indicate
> that they have had much success running FreeBSD on dual Athlons, there
have
> been a few cases which were similar to mine. Basically, I am unable to run
> the system for more than 30 minutes without getting a panic.
>
> Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
> mp_lock = 01000002; cpuid = 1; lapic.id = 00000000
> fault virtual address   = 0xa0a
> fault code              = supervisor read, page not present
> instruction pointer     = 0x8:0xc02218e8
> stack pointer           = 0x10:0xff80fbc0
> frame pointer           = 0x10:0xff80fbc0
> 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         = Idle
> interrupt mask          = bio   <- SMP: XXX
>
> The instruction pointer points to the worklist_insert routine in the
> soft updates code. Although I don't think that it's the file system that's
> really the source of the problem, since I believe I've seen different
> instruction pointers listed for the same type of panic.
>
> In the other cases I was reading about, their panics were also caused by a
> page fault. Unfortunately it didn't seem like the source of the problem
was
> ever really located. So I thought I would run this by you all and see if
> anyone had any additional thoughts or suggestions.
>
> For the record, I'm running the 1.2Ghz Athlons on a Tyan S2460 board with
> 256MB of 266Mhz DDR-SDRAM.
>
> thanks
>
> tim
>
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