From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 21 23: 9:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lucifer.ninth-circle.org (lucifer.bart.nl [194.158.168.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 753A637B402; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 23:09:02 -0800 (PST) Received: (from asmodai@localhost) by lucifer.ninth-circle.org (8.11.1/8.11.0) id f0M78Og22856; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 08:08:24 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from asmodai) Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 08:08:24 +0100 From: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven To: Alex Kapranoff Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Lots of page faults Message-ID: <20010122080824.D22424@lucifer.bart.nl> References: <20010120103135.A10608@kapran.bitmcnit.bryansk.su> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010120103135.A10608@kapran.bitmcnit.bryansk.su>; from alex@kapran.bitmcnit.bryansk.su on Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 10:31:37AM +0300 Organisation: VIA Net.Works The Netherlands Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -On [20010120 08:40], Alex Kapranoff (alex@kapran.bitmcnit.bryansk.su) wrote: >Additional symptoms include very high system CPU state percentage and >a lot of page faults. A page fault is not a bad thing, it is merely an indicator from the CPU to the kernel that the page you want to refer to, the next page of executable data of the application you are running, is not in memory [yet]. The CPU causes a page fault and the kernel pages in the part(s) of the application to memory and then resumes operation, now being able to refer to the appropriate page. [snip] >Is my RAM rotting or what? Given you get coredumps on cc, as and such, it could be. But not always, I have had current give me coredumps in cc and as before but that was due to problems in the binaries themselves after some changes in the world. -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven VIA Net.Works The Netherlands BSD: Technical excellence at its best Network- and systemadministrator D78D D0AD 244D 1D12 C9CA 7152 035C 1138 546A B867 Killing me is not enough to make me go away... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message