From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 4 12:47:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from PacHell.TelcoSucks.org (PacHell.TelcoSucks.org [207.90.181.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16DA514FC4 for ; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 12:46:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ulf@PacHell.TelcoSucks.org) Received: (from ulf@localhost) by PacHell.TelcoSucks.org (8.9.2/8.9.1) id MAA31146; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 12:46:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ulf) Message-ID: <19990304124633.D3659@TelcoSucks.org> Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 12:46:33 -0800 From: Ulf Zimmermann To: Matthew Dillon , Ulf Zimmermann Cc: Bob Bishop , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vm problems in 3.1-RELEASE and -STABLE Reply-To: ulf@alameda.net References: <199903041733.JAA30220@apollo.backplane.com> <19990304121414.A3659@TelcoSucks.org> <199903042027.MAA31748@apollo.backplane.com> <19990304123311.C3659@TelcoSucks.org> <199903042042.MAA31909@apollo.backplane.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <199903042042.MAA31909@apollo.backplane.com>; from Matthew Dillon on Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 12:42:39PM -0800 Organization: Alameda Networks, Inc. X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.1-19990218-STABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 12:42:39PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: > :> A backtrace from the core dump would be useful. It's hard to tell > :> what the cause of the crash is - it could be the BT848, it could the > :> SBPRO. It could be something else. You might have to mess around > :> disabling various bits to figure out the cause. > : > :Crashes have been occuring at all different times. X11 running, no X11 running. > :X11 with with fxtv or without. I can give you the ssh root login to access > :the /var/crash. > : > :Regards, Ulf. > :Ulf Zimmermann, 1525 Pacific Ave., Alameda, CA-94501, #: 510-769-2936 > > Well, I don't quite have enough time to get knee deep into a crash > dump. I can suggest a few things. > > You could try moving to -current. The VM group is in the midst of No thank you. This is my desktop, which specific I do not want to reboot, rebuilt all the time. Before that, I would go back to 3.0R. > comitting a bunch of bug fixes into -current ( current == -4.x ) but, more > importantly, there are bug fixes already in -current which have not > yet been backported to -3.x. If your crashing problem does not occur > under 4.x, there's a good chance that it will be fixed in -3.x in the > next week or so as the fixes are backported. If the crash still occurs > under -4.x, we know there's still a problem somewhere. > > Also, a large number of changes have been made to BT driver even since > the 3.1 release. It might be beneficial to upgrade to the latest -stable > ( i.e. -3.x ) first, and if that does not clear up the problem to try > -current ( i.e. -4.x ). There are no guarentees with any of these, > unfortunately. Like I said, the machine is crashing with VM errors also when the card is not in use. I think I tried even a kernel without bktr driver. > > -Matt > Matthew Dillon > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message -- Regards, Ulf. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ulf Zimmermann, 1525 Pacific Ave., Alameda, CA-94501, #: 510-769-2936 Alameda Networks, Inc. | http://www.Alameda.net | Fax#: 510-521-5073 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message