From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 22 14:01:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA22994 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 22 Feb 1998 14:01:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA22882 for ; Sun, 22 Feb 1998 14:00:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA10058; Sun, 22 Feb 1998 17:00:24 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from toor) From: "John S. Dyson" Message-Id: <199802222200.RAA10058@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: new 2.2.5 installation randomly (and constantly) panics In-Reply-To: <19980222165314.49578@math.vt.edu> from "matthew c. mead" at "Feb 22, 98 04:53:14 pm" To: mmead@calvin.math.vt.edu (matthew c. mead) Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 17:00:24 -0500 (EST) Cc: toor@dyson.iquest.net, jonc@pinnacle.co.nz, grog@lemis.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@freebsd.org | it just makes you look stupid, jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message