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Date:      Wed, 3 Sep 1997 19:29:10 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Alex.Boisvert" <boia01@castor.GEL.USherb.CA>
To:        "John P. Reddy" <jreddy@lightning.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Fatal double fault
Message-ID:  <Pine.SOL.3.91.970903192339.20997A-100000@castor>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19970903105606.007fd4d0@blizzard.lightning.net>

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> 
> I have a system that keeps giving "Fatal double faults" after having an
> uptime of a few hours.  The system freezes , and I get the message:
> 
> Fatal double fault:
> eip = 0x171c6
> esp = 0xefbfcc48
> ebp = 0xefbfcc74
> panic:double fault
> 
> syncing disks . . .
> 
> System stats are:
> Cyrix 6x86L PR200+
> 128 MB Ram
> 1 IDE hard drive (root)
> 3 Seagate Cheetahs striped together using ccd
> 
> Running:
> Diablo (The news feed management program)
> 
> My only guess is that having a Cyrix chip in the same box as the 3 Cheetahs
> is overheating the chip, but I can't tell for certain.  The case is a full
> tower with extra fans blowing through it.  Help me, please! :)

I had the same kind of problem as you are describing with a Cyrix P200+ CPU.
I had to take it down from 150 MHz (2x75MHz) to 133 MHz (2x66MHz).

My gut feeling was that there was a problem with memory access at 2x75
MHz... but I didn't bother to research this problem further.  Now, the
system runs like a charm (but a bit slower).  It's been up for about 20
days (including running a few "make world" to test stability...).

Regards,
Alex.




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