Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 16:38:14 +0100 From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely8.cicely.de> To: Paul Halliday <dp@dove.penix.org> Cc: ticso@cicely.de, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Signals. Message-ID: <20030131153813.GL38062@cicely8.cicely.de> In-Reply-To: <20030131064633.D76361@dove.penix.org> References: <20030130190402.L75026@dove.penix.org> <20030131014240.GD38062@cicely8.cicely.de> <20030131064633.D76361@dove.penix.org>
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On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 06:53:54AM -0500, Paul Halliday wrote: > > On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Bernd Walter wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 07:09:50PM -0500, Paul Halliday wrote: > > > Just a little collection from under 24 hours. > > > > > > pid 203 (XFree86), uid 0: exited on signal 6 (core dumped) > > > pid 1640 (XFree86), uid 0: exited on signal 6 (core dumped) > > > pid 44317 (XFree86), uid 0: exited on signal 6 (core dumped) > > > pid 58026 (gkrellm), uid 0: exited on signal 11 > > > pid 58488 (gkrellm), uid 0: exited on signal 11 > > > swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: #ad/1, blkno: 20512, size: 40960 > > > pid 58342 (dillo), uid 0: exited on signal 11 (core dumped) > > > pid 59854 (cc1), uid 0: exited on signal 11 (core dumped) > > > > Sounds like a problem with your swap HDD. > > This could be cabeling problem and/or a defective drive. > > The kernel has no other choice than to terminate a process for which > > it can reread its memory from swap. > > Why the different signals? As for the HD error when it occured i was Programming Errors - it seemed that some processes were aborted and others couldn't deal with this. > moving an iso to another disk which had just been newfs's. The drive that > contains the core is a working pull from my x86 bsd box which has never > had a problem. This box also displayed this same behavior when it was all > scsi drives running 4.5. Another thing that is missing from the above > list is konqueror, it without fail cores everytime I run it. Maybe it was caused by your CD rom drive - I don't know. One thing is for shure: You have had problems with you swap drive. That's what the swap_pager ist telling you. > The only testing I have done is memtest which through 8 full runs showed > no errors, aside from this I dont know what to try. A PC164 will tell you about memory problems - no reason to worry here. -- B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de ticso@cicely.de Usergroup info@cosmo-project.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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