From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 2 15:59: 1 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE8D237B400 for ; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 15:58:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp3.southeast.rr.com (smtp3.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.84]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE04343E3B for ; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 15:58:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bts@fake.com) Received: from mail4.nc.rr.com (fe4 [24.93.67.51]) by smtp3.southeast.rr.com (8.12.5/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g72Mwgga020175; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 18:58:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: from this.is.fake.com ([66.26.254.93]) by mail4.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.757.75); Fri, 2 Aug 2002 18:58:52 -0400 Received: by i8k.babbleon.org (Postfix, from userid 111) id E11A9BB34; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 18:58:48 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: "Brian T. Schellenberger" To: Jerry McAllister , mcrogerm@stjohn.ac.th (Roger Merritt) Subject: Re: Trap 12 page fault in kernel mode Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 18:58:48 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.2 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <200208021556.g72Fujt16128@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <200208021556.g72Fujt16128@clunix.cl.msu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200208021858.48617.bts@babbleon.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday 02 August 2002 11:56 am, Jerry McAllister wrote: | > I've been having problems running portsdb and portupgrade remotely for a | > couple of months now. When I use SSH to log in and run portsdb I get a | > hell of a lot of error messages (mostly saying "" doesn't exist and the | > dependency list is incomplete) and after a couple of hours the server | > reboots. Today I caught it while the screen was still displaying the | > error message, "Trap 12 page fault while in kernel mode". Today I was | > running the file output by 'portversion -c > needs.update'. The machine | > had been chugging away merrily for a couple of hours downloading and | > compiling when the same thing happened. | > | > I guess from the term "page fault" there has been a glitch in virtual | > memory. Is this a symptom that my hard drive might be developing | > problems? Oddly enough, I've run similar commands from the console and | > they've completed without a reboot. | | The term "page fault" just means it had to page out some memory to | disk or get it back again. The virtual memory system pages so swap | space. Although that is a definition of "page fault" I believe that the message only occurs when it tries to page but it can't. Possibly the disk where the swap space is is corrupted, or possibly you simply don't have enough of it. I'd recommend running xosview or similar so you can monitor your memory usage, but I suspect that a bigger swap area might behoove you. Or more physical RAM. | | I don't know about the other messages though. I supposes they could | also relate to running out of memory and swap space but really don't -- Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) http://www.babbleon.org http://www.eff.org http://www.programming-freedom.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message