On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 10:37:45PM -0700, Bill Dorsey wrote:

2 comments:

- PWS are in 433, 500 and 600 MHz variants available. Yours reports 533Mhz
  This looks like a wrong dipswitch setting. Happened to me once, and 
  did little good to the stability of my PWS500
- Are the cooling fans OK? Specifically the CPU

Wilko

> Since upgrading to NetBSD 1.5 (and more recently NetBSD 1.5_BETA2) my PWS
> has yet to make it to 30 days of uptime.  Prior to that with the 1.4 kernel
> I had NEVER seen a kernel panic, but now I get one every 1-3 weeks.  Still
> more reliable than Windoze, but not by much.  Here's the output from
> yesterday's
> panic on the 1.5_BETA2 kernel:
> 
> /netbsd: fatal kernel trap:
> /netbsd:
> /netbsd:     trap entry = 0x2 (memory management fault)
> /netbsd:     a0         = 0x7f7f7c80810fa248
> /netbsd:     a1         = 0x1
> /netbsd:     a2         = 0x0
> /netbsd:     pc         = 0xfffffc00003cab1c
> /netbsd:     ra         = 0xfffffc00003ca908
> /netbsd:     curproc    = 0xfffffc00018cef00
> /netbsd:         pid = 75, comm = syslogd
> /netbsd:
> /netbsd: panic: trap
> 
> panic: trap
> Stopped in syslogd at cpu_Debugger + 0x4
> panic() @ panic + 0xfc
> trap() @ trap + 0x51c
> XentMM() @ XentMM + 0x20
> --- memory management fault (from IPL 0) ---
> pollscan() @ pollscan + 0x7c
> sys_poll() @ sys_poll + 0x228
> syscall() @ sys_call + 0x1dc
> Xentsys() @ Xentsys + 0x50
> --- Syscall(209, netbsd.sys_poll) ---
> --- user mode ---
> 
> And here's the first few lines of output from dmesg:
> 
> Digital Personal WorkStation 533au, 531MHz
> 8192 byte page size, 1 processor.
> total memory = 256 MB
> (2264 KB reserved for PROM, 253 MB used by NetBSD)
> avail memory = 230 MB
> using 1637 buffers containing 13096 KB of memory
> mainbus0 (root)
> cpu0 at mainbus0: ID 0 (primary), 21164A-0 (unknown minor type 0)
> cpu0: Architecture extensions: 1<BWX>
> cia0 at mainbus0: DECchip 2117x Core Logic Chipset (Pyxis), pass 1
> cia0: extended capabilities: 111<WLEN,MWEN,BWEN>
> cia0: using BWX for PCI config access
> cia0: WARNING: Pyxis pass 1 DMA bug; no bets...
> pci0 at cia0 bus 0
> pci0: i/o space, memory space enabled
> de0 at pci0 dev 3 function 0
> de0: interrupting at dec 550 irq 0
> de0: DEC 21142 [10-100Mb/s] pass 1.1
> de0: address 00:00:f8:75:41:e3
> de0: setting full duplex.
> de0: enabling Full Duplex 100baseTX port
> de0: setting full duplex.
> de0: setting full duplex.
> de0: setting full duplex.
> de0: setting full duplex.
> pciide0 at pci0 dev 4 function 0: CMD Technology PCI0646 (rev. 0x01)
> pciide0: bus-master DMA support present
> pciide0: primary channel wired to compatibility mode
> [...]
> 
> If it helps, the panic occured while the machine was experiencing
> heavy network traffic and a moderate CPU load (load average around
> 2).
> 
> So I'm going to upgrade to 1.5.1 presently in the hopes that it will
> be more reliable for me.  Still, it would seem unlikely that the
> problem got fixed in the short amount of time between the BETA2
> release and the 1.5.1 release.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> - Bill Dorsey
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