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From: nowhere@cs.bsu.edu (Chael Hall)
Subject: NetBSD 0.9 swap problems
Message-ID: <Ct3LML.3sL@cs.bsu.edu>
Summary: How do I configure swap space?
Keywords: netbsd swap
Organization: Ball State University - Computer Science Department
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Date: Sun, 17 Jul 1994 18:49:33 GMT
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Hi, all,
It has been a long time since I last posted, but I have been busy.
The problem I am encountering is that the system crashes frequently (every
day or so) now that we have several memory-intensive programs running. I
stalled as long as I could so that I could get additional hard drive space.
Now I have two IDE hard drives. One has a mere 10MB swap on wd0b and the
other has a 48MB swap on wd1b. I think that I have to recompile the kernel
to configure wd1b as a swap partition. No problem there. The problem is
that I don't think my swap space was ever configured correctly in the first
place. When the system crashes, it has a kernel panic that is on the screen
momentarily before it reboots. The error begins "vm_fault."
The computer is an 80486dx/33 with AMI BIOS. I have one Maxtor IDE hard
drive and one Quantum IDE hard drive. Usually this problem occurs in
conjunction with someone running the 'w' program, but not always. You can sit
there and type 'w' for hours and it won't crash, but sometimes it will give
you the uptime information then panic and reboot.
Please e-mail all responses (you can post too, but I only get to check USENET
every other week.)
Thanks in advance,
Chael Hall
nowhere@bsu-cs.bsu.edu, chall@bsu.edu, nowhere@chaos.bsu.edu