Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 19:53:54 +0100 From: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> To: nino@inode.at Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3.4-RELEASE; panic while paging Message-ID: <20000329195354.A40356@walton.maths.tcd.ie> In-Reply-To: <20000329175018.V15889@TK147108.telekabel.at>; from mjy@pobox.com on Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 05:50:18PM %2B0200 References: <20000329175018.V15889@TK147108.telekabel.at>
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On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 05:50:18PM +0200, Marinos J . Yannikos wrote: > - 1 spontaneous reboot > - several sig 10/sig 11 errors while compiling the kernel > - 2 kernel panics while paging, the message was "supervisor read - page not > present, IIRC". Apparently the kernel ran out of swap, but I doubt that > this was the only reason. 3.4-RELEASE seems rock-stable on my K6-3/400 > system. Sounds like a regular "sig 11" problem. It probably means one of: 1) Your processor is overheating. We had a dual PIII 600 which came with fans which weren't up to the job and them machine would lock up after a few minutes. 2) Your motherboard is sick. We had a motherboard which was causing every 8th byte of a 4k page to be corrupted once every few weeks. The new version of the MB had added a heat sync to the memory controler, and works perfectly. 3) Your memory is sick. Don't trust the BIOS test - I've seen SIMMs pass the BIOS test that have a blob of solder stuck across a few pins on the ram chips. The only way to find out is to swap parts until the machine becomes stable. David. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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