From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 19 06:32:54 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id GAA21484 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 19 Jan 1995 06:32:54 -0800 Received: from minnow.render.com (render.demon.co.uk [158.152.30.118]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA21478 for ; Thu, 19 Jan 1995 06:32:47 -0800 Received: (from dfr@localhost) by minnow.render.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) id OAA04223; Thu, 19 Jan 1995 14:31:06 GMT Date: Thu, 19 Jan 1995 14:31:04 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: VM/buffer problems Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk After seeing the VM/buffer stuff go in and not having rebuilt my kernel since Dec 4, I decided it was about time for an upgrade, so I duly supped myself up to date and made world before building a new kernel. All was fine, it seemed until I tried to run X. X ran up fine and I started a copy of lucid emacs and started trying to do some work, running a compile. Unfortunately, the machine froze solid about 30secs later. I have no idea what happened and the kernel didn't dump a core. I have DDB in the kernel, so it may have been stopped in DDB but since the graphics card wasn't in text mode at the time, I wouldn't have seen it. Before running X, I had been doing a bit of I/O intensive stuff (make clean). and after, there would have been quite a bit of NFS traffic. I am a bit stumped now. I have gone back to my old kernel so that I can get some work done but I suppose I might be able to catch something by starting a build under X and quickly swapping back to another console to see if DDB says anything. -- Doug Rabson, RenderMorphics Ltd. Mail: dfr@render.com Phone: +44 71 251 4411 FAX: +44 71 251 0939