:Hey, : :It is great if you are finding a solution for the VIA-chipset. :Do you have any idea if it is a simular problem that I am experiencing? : :I am not enough into chip code to have a clue what exactly the patch :is doing - but maybe it is just decreasing the load on the kernel/system in :a :way that the crashes are avoided tough there is still a bug outthere :somewhere?! : :I do not have a single VIA-chip in my box that I know of - all Intel :and is running the latest BIOS version avialable for my motherboard :and still having crashes whenever I put any pressure on the box, like :compiling/moving large files across filesystems/etc:
Well, as Soren says, there are lots of things that can result in crashes. In order for us to attempt to diagnose the crashes you are having you need to post a backtrace of that core file - usually it is a good idea to do it with the kernel.debug binary from the kernel build directory rather then the stripped 'kernel' that the crash dump saves, but either will work for a start. cd /var/crash gdb -k kernel.4 vmcore.4 gdb> back If you have the kernel.debug associated with the kernel, usually found in the original build directory (i.e. /usr/src/sys/compile /JKKN_KRNL/kernel.debug) if you had done a config -g or used the makeoptions DEBUG=-g option in the kernel config file, then you can gdb using the debug binary and get a much more interesting back trace. cd /var/crash gdb -k /usr/src/sys/compile/JKKN_KRNL/kernel.debug vmcore.4 gdb> back -Matt :dumpon: crash dumps to /dev/ad0s1b (116, 131073) :Checking for core dump: :savecore: reboot after panic: page fault :Dec 26 04:11:11 jkkn savecore: reboot after panic: page fault :savecore: system went down at Wed Dec 26 04:07:57 2001 :savecore: writing core to /var/crash/vmcore.4 : :.....snip end..... : :Regards :Kristian To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message