Subject: Re: pmap_zero_page problem
To: None <tls@rek.tjls.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: port-i386
Date: 04/01/1999 17:22:45
On Apr 1, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote
> No, it's not.  I can't reproduce it any more (dammit) but I was getting it
> regularly about a week ago.  I have a machine with a large FFS filesystem I
> burn ISO9660 disks from.  Running mkhybrid would cause a pmap_zero_page panic
> when the mkhybrid program exited, unless I typed "sync" after it did its last
> disk write but before it had printed its final messages and exited.
> 
> As soon as I tried to track it down the problem went away -- but I definitely
> saw it.  This was on hardware which had been 100% reliable for several months.


Hoooo, this is becomming interesting :).
I'll try a kernel from today (with the resent VM and pool changes) and see
how it gets.

What hardware does your machine have ? IDE or SCSI disks. How many
disk buffer cache ?

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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