From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 7 12:32:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA26634 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 7 Aug 1997 12:32:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts16-line10.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA26628 for ; Thu, 7 Aug 1997 12:32:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA00564; Thu, 7 Aug 1997 12:32:48 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 12:32:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: hackers@freebsd.org cc: donal@brewich.com Subject: vm_fault problem (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk We'll see if -hackers can decode this. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 06 Aug 1997 23:26:27 -0500 From: Donal To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: gclarkii@main.gbdata.com Subject: vm_fault problem I am having a problem, and I hope you can help or direct me to someone who can. I recently upgraded my comm server to 2.2.2 and upgraded some of the hardware. The system is now: Gigabyte HX motherboard (new) Award BIOS on board IDE 2 com ports 2x16MB 60ns EDO RAM (new) 1.2GB Maxtor IDE (new) NE2000 card Trident ISA video card Usenet II 4 port Serial card Since the upgrade the machine has been rebooting at random intervals (anything from 5 minutes to 2 days) and I can find no log trace or core files. Then yesterday I caught it doing it and managed to write it down! I THINK this is exactly what it said... vm_fault: fault on nofault entry: address f296c000 then it had something about syncing the disks (it failed) and that I could press a key to stop the reboot. I did press a key but it rebooted anyway. PLEASE help!!! Is it a bad SIMM??? MB Cache? Should I disable the cache? This machine is my gateway. My ISDN is connected to it, as are all 5 of my dialup lines. This reboot thing is crippling my business! Thank you in advance for your help. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Donal SysAdmin of The Brewers' Witch BBS +1 713 272 7350 The Largest Pagan-oriented BBS on the Internet! http://www.brewich.com Modkin of soc.religion.paganism http://www.brewich.com/org/srp RingMaster of The WebCircle http://www.brewich.com/webcircle WebMaster of The Council of the Magickal Arts http://www.brewich.com/org/cma BW Internet Services, Houston's Pagan-owned&operated ISP http://www.bwis.com