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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!inferno.mpx.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!samba.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!news.PBI.net!news.mathworks.com!hunter.premier.net!news1.erols.com!news From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: PANIC! Date: Tue, 06 Aug 1996 06:35:21 -0700 Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site Lines: 38 Message-ID: <32074A19.5C2@www.play-hookey.com> References: <4u28k8$uig@merin.carrier.kiev.ua> NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win16; I) Alexander Litvin wrote: > [snipped] > > Each system crashes with message like: > > kernel page directory invalid pdir=0x52e063 va=0xc000 > ^^^^^^^^ > actual numbers may differ > panic: invalid page directory > > Crash is more or less severe from time to time. Sometimes system will > work well with 200 processes, but crash with 300 - it depends. > > I don't see any reason for such system behaviour. I'm not sure it's > melfunction, but will be grateful to hear any comments. For we would > like to use FreeBSD as a server for http, ftp, nntp, and other > services, and we're very concerned with it's stability. I of course > know that ftp.freebsd.org sustains very heavy load, but... > At least, system should refuse to give servicies when overloaded, but > (from my point of view) it shouldn't crash! > > P.S. May be the program is simply buggy - forgive the dummy in that case. > Whenever I have experienced random crashes of any flavor, it has had to do with slightly slow cache RAM. FreeBSD seems to access cache faster than DOS/Windoze, and so demands tighter specs. To check this out, disable external cache in your ROM BIOS setup menus, and then try it again. It'll be a little slower, but will either confirm or eliminate this possibility. -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |