Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 01:11:42 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: possible vm kernel death Message-ID: <199609180811.BAA11564@root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 18 Sep 1996 17:15:02 %2B0930." <199609180745.RAA04741@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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>Hmm. I've been trying to build the world on this (other) machine for days >now, and have been plagued with no end of problems. I am _not_ convinced >that the machine is 100% hardware reliable. Although earlier this year >(march-april) it was worlding every couple of weeks OK, it has (I believe) >had a memory swap since then. (P120, Soyo Triton, NCR & 2G seagate). > >Initially the build was failing _consistently_ when compiling >libncurses/lib_options -> lib_options.so; the machine would >spontaneously reboot. I've been supping as close as I could, watching for >changes filtering through from JD; the kernel it's currently running's >/sys/vm Id strings are at the bottom of this message. Are you sure that you're not using some old LKMs? This is definately filesystem related and appears to be caused by a 'sync' to a out of date loadable kernel module. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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