From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 25 00:59:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA10802 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 00:59:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA10793 for ; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 00:59:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA10910; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 19:28:43 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id TAA28471; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 19:28:42 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980225192842.30125@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 19:28:42 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Grimm , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Recovering from disaster, and other nastiness... References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: ; from Grimm on Tue, Feb 24, 1998 at 11:09:13PM -0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 24 February 1998 at 23:09:13 -0800, Grimm wrote: > I've managed to recover successfully from my little adventure with my hard > drive, (partly solved by uninstalling my new RAM and putting all my old > RAM back in) but I still have a question. > > First, while I still had my new RAM in, I got a number of odd faults. > Namely, I would get something like this: > > Fatal trap 12 page fault while in kernel mode > > Fault code: supervisor read, page not present. > [snip] > Panic: page fault. > > And the kernel would reboot the system. > > Since I got these rather frequently, but I don't anymore, I suspect it is > a problem with the new RAM. That's a fairly typical reaction to bad RAM. > Either that, or - as I suspect it may be - it means I need to change > the size of my /proc partition. What gives you that idea? > First of all, is this the case? No. > And second, if it is, how does one _do_ this nondestructively? You can't. /proc isn't a partition, it's a pseudo filesystem which shows various aspects of process execution. Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message