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Date:      Thu, 22 Oct 1998 22:27:10 -0700
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au>
Cc:        Benjamin Greenwald <beng@lcs.mit.edu>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: VM bug triggered by X server death 
Message-ID:  <199810230527.WAA12629@implode.root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 23 Oct 1998 14:41:41 %2B0930." <Pine.OSF.4.05.9810231437510.3206-100000@photon.physics.adelaide.edu.au> 

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>On Fri, 23 Oct 1998, Benjamin Greenwald wrote:
>
>> With the most recent kernel, every time my X server dies (reboot, explicit
>> kill, whatever) the kernel panics.  Looks like some sort of VM bug.  A
>> backtrace follows.  This problem is easily and completely reproducible
>> (translate it happens every time) and it occurs with both my Xi Graphics X
>> server as well as the XSuSE XFCom_3DLabs server (I have a Fire GL 1000 Pro).
>
>I also get a panic in this case running a current kernel (ELF, and since
>dg's recent changes in this area). Mine however dies with (from memory):
>
>vm_object_terminate: not freeing wired page; wire_count=1

   That will be coming out in Ben's case as well, just before the panic. The
problem was caused by two bugs, actually. Fixed in rev 1.131 of vm_object.c.
Thanks for the bug reports.

-DG

David Greenman
Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project


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