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From: brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Help with fatal trap 12 crashes please
Date: 15 Dec 1996 02:44:40 -0000
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In article <58qtcj$o81@maureen.teleport.com>,
bharbour@teleport.com (Bob Harbour) writes:
: I am putting together a pci/pentium machine to run freebsd 2.1.5, and have
: successfully installed freebsd after much thrashing. The machine is
: crashing very often with Fatal Trap 12 along with messages about kernel
: page faults, freeing busy pages and a couple of other messages. It
: normally happens when doing a lot of disk accesses (IDE disk). It is
: strange, I can often compile a kernel, but I have yet to be able to build
: the locate database without crashing. I also get processes exiting for
: signal 11 pretty often. I have tried several varieties of RAM, 16mb
: through 48mb, with similar results. Does anybody have any ideas on this?
: Does this sound like a setup problem, or a mainboard problem?
If you've swapped the RAM and you're still getting these problems, I'd
suspect the cache. Try turning everything you can off.
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>, <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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