From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Feb 27 11:53: 3 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91BDD37B401 for ; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 11:53:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from ops.tamu.edu (ops.tamu.edu [165.91.250.112]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C62BE43F93 for ; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 11:53:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nipsy@ops.tamu.edu) Received: from nipsy by ops.tamu.edu with local (Exim 4.10) id 18oU5T-00029G-00 for stable@freebsd.org; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 13:52:59 -0600 Received: from smtp-relay.tamu.edu ([165.91.143.199] helo=tamu-relay.tamu.edu) by arrakis.tamu.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 18oU5G-0008AQ-00 for ; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 13:52:46 -0600 Received: from ops.tamu.edu (ops.tamu.edu [165.91.250.112]) by tamu-relay.tamu.edu (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1RJqeQ4037852 for ; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 13:52:42 -0600 (CST) Received: from nipsy by ops.tamu.edu with local (Exim 4.10) id 18oU59-000297-00 for nipsy@tamu.edu; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 13:52:39 -0600 Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 13:52:39 -0600 From: Mark Nipper To: Mark Nipper Subject: Re: crash w/ 4.7-STABLE of Wed Feb 12 22:15:15 CST 2003 Message-ID: <20030227195239.GB3904@ops.tamu.edu> References: <20030214150901.GB61301@ops.tamu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030214150901.GB61301@ops.tamu.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 09:09:01AM -0600, Mark Nipper wrote: > I had another crash, again, with a: > --- > Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode For what it's worth, I think I finally discovered the causes of my crashes on this same machine over the past several months. I'm just posting this so that maybe someone else having the same problem will find this message of use at some point in the future. Looking around for information on "fatal trap 12" crashes, it seems almost all of them are hardware related usually. And in my case, I think that still holds true. I recalled finally that I had recently added a third stick of Corsair XMMS DDR memory to this machine (for a total of three 256MB DDR DIMM's) and that my stability issues seemed to crop up shortly afterwards! So far, after removing the third stick of memory, the machine has been running stably with no problems at all. Searching around on deja.com, this seems to be a somewhat common problem with various motherborads. So I guess, buyer beware! Like I said, hopefully this will help someone else in the future who is unfortunate enough to put three sticks of DDR memory into a machine and suddenly starts seeing bizarre stability issues! :) -- Mark Nipper e-contacts: Computing and Information Services nipsy@tamu.edu Texas A&M University http://ops.tamu.edu/nipsy/ College Station, TX 77843-3142 AIM/Yahoo: texasnipsy ICQ: 66971617 (979)575-3193 MSN: nipsy@tamu.edu -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- GG/IT d- s++:+ a-- C++$ UBL+++$ P--->+++ L+++$ E--- W++ N+ o K++ w(---) O++ M V(--) PS+++(+) PE(--) Y+ PGP++(+) t 5 X R tv b+++ DI+(++) D+ G e h r++ y+(**) ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ ---begin random quote of the moment--- Spelling mistakes left as an exercise for the reader. ----end random quote of the moment---- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message