From owner-freebsd-stable Tue May 8 7: 0:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from kumquat.hlcca.org (kumquat.hlcca.org [209.244.192.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DA92B37B43C for ; Tue, 8 May 2001 07:00:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dakota@kumquat.hlcca.org) Received: (qmail 320 invoked by uid 143); 8 May 2001 09:59:16 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO kumquat.hlcca.org) (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 8 May 2001 09:59:16 -0000 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org From: lists@mediumgreen.com Subject: Re: Random (?) kernel panics In-Reply-To: Message from Kris Kennaway of "Thu, 26 Apr 2001 13:23:31 MST." <20010426132331.E2224@xor.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 09:59:16 +0000 Message-Id: <20010508140009.DA92B37B43C@hub.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I think I heard Kris Kennaway say: >On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 10:40:00AM +0000, lists@mediumgreen.com wrote: >>=20 >> FWIW, my 4.3-RC #1 machine has been panic'ing with the same message. It's >> happened twice now. I'm currently not saving cores, but will configure >> my machine to do so. I noticed yesterday before it happened that top >> was reporting nearly 100 MB free memory, but also that I had about 50MB >> of swap being used. I thought that was a little odd, but don't know >> enough about how things work to know if that is normal or not. I >> just had never noticed it before. > >Nothing wrong with that; it just means that at some point more free >memory was needed than available so something was pushed out to swap, >and it's stayed there because it hasn't been needed yet. > >Let the list know once you get the backtrace from your panic. I cvsup'd to the latest stable on Friday and installed a new kernel yesterday and got another panic with the same message (supervisor write, page not present). My panic's NEVER can complete sync'ing the disks, so I don't ever get core's. Jaime got a core from his pacnic's with the same message, though. Does anyone have any suggestions on what do next? This machine has been down for an average of 5 hours per week since this started happening - my users are getting kinda antsy (sp?). Thank you -matthew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message