From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 6 11:34:37 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id LAA09075 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 6 Oct 1995 11:34:37 -0700 Received: from terra.aros.net (angio@terra.aros.net [205.164.111.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA09070 for ; Fri, 6 Oct 1995 11:34:35 -0700 Received: (from angio@localhost) by terra.aros.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id MAA23076; Fri, 6 Oct 1995 12:34:29 -0600 From: Dave Andersen Message-Id: <199510061834.MAA23076@terra.aros.net> Subject: Re: Crash questions To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Fri, 6 Oct 1995 12:34:29 -0600 (MDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199510061000.DAA00325@corbin.Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at Oct 6, 95 03:00:28 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1268 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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 -- angio@aros.net Complete virtual hosting and business-oriented system administration Internet services. (WWW, FTP, email) http://www.aros.net/ http://www.aros.net/about/virtual/ "She totally confused all the passing piranhas"