From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 29 09:11:58 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA11754 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 29 Aug 1997 09:11:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from unicorn.uk1.vbc.net (unicorn.uk1.vbc.net [194.207.2.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA11748 for ; Fri, 29 Aug 1997 09:11:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (gordon@localhost) by unicorn.uk1.vbc.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA13450 for ; Fri, 29 Aug 1997 17:11:45 +0100 Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 17:11:45 +0100 (BST) From: Gordon Henderson X-Sender: gordon@unicorn Reply-To: Gordon Henderson To: hackers@freeBSD.org Subject: Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode Message-ID: Distribution: world Organization: Home for lost Drogons MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I got this last night: Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode fault virtual address = 0x800010 fault code = supervisor read, page not present instruction pointer = 0x8:0xe0121320 stack pointer = 0x10:0xdfbfff18 frame pointer = 0x10:0xdfbfff28 code segment = base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1 processor eflags = interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL = 0 current process = 7539 (named-xfer) interrupt mask = net tty panic: page fault Can anyone tell me what it means? The machine is a FreeBSD-2-2-stable with 384MB of RAM, with 3 patches from DG and sysctl -w vm.v_free_reserved=1024 sysctl -w vm.v_free_min=1500 in it's /etc/rc.local. It waas running named at the time, acting a a gTLD nameserver (providing secondary service for .com, .net, .edu, etc zones). The named process runs to about 240MB. Gordon