Date: Fri, 6 Oct 1995 12:34:29 -0600 (MDT) From: Dave Andersen <angio@aros.net> To: davidg@Root.COM Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Crash questions Message-ID: <199510061834.MAA23076@terra.aros.net> In-Reply-To: <199510061000.DAA00325@corbin.Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at Oct 6, 95 03:00:28 am
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Lo and behold, David Greenman once said:
> Can you tell me what version of FreeBSD you're running? I think this is
> caused by a page table page being paged out during a very narrow window when
> a new process is being forked. I added some checks in the fork code that
> should cause the machine to panic earlier if this is really the problem.
2.1.0 950726-SNAP
> During the entire operational time of wcarchive (about 2 years), I've seen the
> above panic a total of _1_ time...so I can't say that I haven't seen it, but I
> do think it is very rare. I'll add it to my whiteboard so I don't forget about
> it. I don't know if I'll be able to fix it before the 2.1 release, however, as
> it might require an architectural change to fix...but I will look into it.
Ack. :) We crashed again this morning - the machine just sort of
froze, and one of the people here had to reboot it. No kernel panic
messages this time, so perhaps I'm having a different problem.
-Dave Andersen
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