From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 6 21:26:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA15676 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 6 Aug 1997 21:26:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from brewich.brewich.com (Brewich.COM [207.90.222.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA15669 for ; Wed, 6 Aug 1997 21:26:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gemini.brewich.com (Gemini.Brewich.COM [207.90.222.3]) by brewich.brewich.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA05056; Wed, 6 Aug 1997 23:26:31 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.19970806232627.008e2644@brewich.com> X-Sender: donal@brewich.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Wed, 06 Aug 1997 23:26:27 -0500 To: questions@freebsd.org From: Donal Subject: vm_fault problem Cc: gclarkii@main.gbdata.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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