Subject: Re: uvm_faults - kernel keeps crashing
To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=FCller=2C_Markus?= <Markus.Mueller@itworks-gmbh.de>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 12/10/2001 18:36:59
On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 04:37:26PM +0100, "Müller, Markus" wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> here's a neophyte with massive problems.
>
> After unsuccessfully posting in port-i386 I thought posting here
> might get me a little help... <:^)
>
>
> Here goes:
>
> I keep having kernel crashes and always need to reboot the machine.
>
> Mostly the crashes occur during mysql queries on large tables.
>
> The mysql logs do have some IP connection errors, but the Hardware
> and TCP/IP configuration seem ok.
>
> Here's the output on the screen:
>
> uvm_fault (0xe384d814, 0x0, 0, 1) -> 1
> kernel: page fault trap, code=0
> Stopped in mysql at pmap_page_remove+0xb7 movL 9x4(%ebx),%edx
>
>
>
> The kernel is still generic, so I tried to compile a new Kernel with
> IPv6 disabled (i thought this might be a reason for my problems).
>
> When I first started make, the compiler stopped with the following:
>
>
> internal compiler error:program got fatal signal 11
> ***Error code 1
Hum, this really looks like a hardware problem. Bad RAM, or bad cache, or
bad CPU.
> [...]
> Version is NetBSD 1.5.2
You could eventually try a 1.5.3_ALPHA kernel (see
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-release-1-5/ for sources)
but I'm not aware of such bugs in 1.5.2 anyway.
--
Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI. Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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