From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Dec 6 0:10: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from sploo.aagh.net (pc2-hart4-0-cust103.mid.cable.ntl.com [213.107.122.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D75F737B41B for ; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 00:09:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from freaky by sploo.aagh.net with local (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16BtbP-000D0o-00 for stable@freebsd.org; Thu, 06 Dec 2001 08:09:55 +0000 Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 08:09:55 +0000 From: Thomas Hurst To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Page Faults Message-ID: <20011206080955.GH49265@sploo.aagh.net> Mail-Followup-To: stable@freebsd.org References: <20011206045010.13965.qmail@web11603.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011206045010.13965.qmail@web11603.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.24i Organization: Not much. Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Holtor (holtor@yahoo.com) wrote: > I've put together a computer here and am trying to install the latest > FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE on it. > > The problem is after I go to custom setup, the system crashes due to a > page fault. Sometimes it lets me in and then crashes after it writes > the filesystem data to the hard drive. Tried swapping the memory around? In my experience unhandled pagefaults are a common sign of borked memory. You might also put the drives in PIO mode if they seem related to disk activity. -- Thomas 'Freaky' Hurst - freaky@aagh.net - http://www.aagh.net/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message