Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 19:28:42 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Grimm <grimm@shell.pgonline.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Recovering from disaster, and other nastiness... Message-ID: <19980225192842.30125@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.980224224955.11778A-100000@shell.pgonline.com>; from Grimm on Tue, Feb 24, 1998 at 11:09:13PM -0800 References: <Pine.BSI.3.95.980224224955.11778A-100000@shell.pgonline.com>
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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
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