Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 21:54:44 -0800 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org> To: Karl Denninger <karl@Mcs.Net> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Crashes (page faults) and odd behavior on current Message-ID: <199610290554.VAA29224@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 28 Oct 1996 23:06:40 CST." <199610290506.XAA01872@Jupiter.Mcs.Net>
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>Hi folks, > >Looks like more VM problems... > >We're seeing odd stuff -- program which were working core dumping, crashes >with kernel page faults (nothing repeatable), and what looks like VM cache >corruption (perhaps in the page area). > >Ideas? I know that there were VM changes made a week or so ago, but kernels >I built *yesterday* are showing these symptoms. > >There was a change committed to vm/vm_swap.c last night -- what did it >address? I also started seeing this stuff sometime this weekend. My symptom is tar complaing about a corrupted file when untaring something large (say 11MB). Unmount/Remount the fs, and the tar extracts just fine. I was going to play around with my RAM to see if it was the culpret, but this second report makes it look like a software bug. >-- >Karl Denninger (karl@MCS.Net)| MCSNet - The Finest Internet Connectivity >http://www.mcs.net/~karl | T1's from $600 monthly to FULL DS-3 Service > | 23 Analog Prefixes, 13 ISDN, Web servers $75/mo >Voice: [+1 312 803-MCS1 x219]| Email to "info@mcs.net" WWW: http://www.mcs.net >/ >Fax: [+1 312 248-9865] | 2 FULL DS-3 Internet links; 400Mbps B/W Interna >l -- Justin T. Gibbs =========================================== FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations ===========================================
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