From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 12 18: 6:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net (pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18D0E37B417 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 18:06:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0381.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.43.126] helo=mindspring.com) by pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16ky9k-0006Fe-00; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 18:06:20 -0800 Message-ID: <3C8EB403.B965336F@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 18:05:55 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Clark C . Evans" Cc: Mike Silbersack , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: panic: pmap_enter (closed, thanks!) References: <3C8E703D.430CEC4E@mindspring.com> <20020312160818.T14552-100000@patrocles.silby.com> <20020312205810.A477@doublegemini.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Clark C . Evans" wrote: > As it turns out, it is a bad memory chip. It is replaced > and all is well. I'm very sorry for not testing for bad chips > first, thank you for pointing me to memtest86! It's funny > beacuse I've been using the box for quite some time without > a memory problem... so I apologize for not catching it earlier. Sorry about the bad memory, but not sorry it wasn't a FreeBSD problem. 8-). > Anyway, I went back and tested the MFS with and without the > 8:1 ratio. In both cases it seems to work just great, I'm > sorry for the difficulty. Thank you so much for your attention, > as a FreeBSD newbie (who is doing someting rather cool), I'm > just thrilled at moving to FreeBSD from Linux (from Windows). > It'll be a while before I get to be a unix guru and can help > out... but thank you so much. I'm glad the non-8:1 ratio works. I thought that it should; the only suspicious code, from my point of vies, was the frag mask calculation. And I had a real hard time believing it to be wrong, except for Mike's claim that it was broken, since I haven't personally had problems with it. 8-(. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message