Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 20:37:03 -0500 From: "matthew c. mead" <mmead@calvin.math.vt.edu> To: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> Cc: jonc@pinnacle.co.nz, grog@lemis.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new 2.2.5 installation randomly (and constantly) panics Message-ID: <19980222203703.41307@math.vt.edu> In-Reply-To: <199802222200.RAA10058@dyson.iquest.net>; from John S. Dyson on Sun, Feb 22, 1998 at 05:00:24PM -0500 References: <19980222165314.49578@math.vt.edu> <199802222200.RAA10058@dyson.iquest.net>
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On Sun, Feb 22, 1998 at 05:00:24PM -0500, John S. Dyson wrote: > matthew c. mead said: > > On Sun, Feb 22, 1998 at 04:05:11PM -0500, John S. Dyson wrote: > > > I am chimeing in on Jonathan's info: > > > > > The below patch is mandatory, and your 2.2.5 system will most likely have > > > problems if you don't apply it!!!! :-(. 2.2.6 should be already fixed. > > > > Well, I've applied the patch, but I'm still getting panics. I have very > > little hair left. :( Here's the output from gdb -k... any ideas? > > Thanks again... > > > Try doing what you can to disable the use of i586_copyin. Try to modify > the support.s file (or wherever the fastmove code gets setup) so that > you use the default bcopy code. It might not be a VM problem per-se, but > either a support routine problem, or a very subtile network memory allocation > mgmt problem. Do you have any suggestions about how to go about doing so? I'm really not a kernel hacker by any definition of the word, but I really would like to get my system stable without replacing it. -matt -- Matthew C. Mead Virginia Tech Mathematics Department 460 McBryde Hall Blacksburg, VA 24061-0123 mmead@math.vt.edu (540)231-2643 FAX: (540)231-5960 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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