Re: [Patches avail?] Re: MMAP() in STABLE/CURRENT ...

1999-10-12 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Matthew Dillon writes: : Forget the drilling! Blood conducts electricity... simply *installing* : a motherboard in those fraggin sharp-edged sheet metal chassis is enough! I've had one or two cheapo mo-bos that haven't worked at 100MHz after spattering human

Re: [Patches avail?] Re: MMAP() in STABLE/CURRENT ...

1999-10-08 Thread David Malone
On Thu, Oct 07, 1999 at 10:09:23AM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: Intel's ECC implementation is not perfect (1), but it's good enough to catch these sorts of problems. Just as an interesting side note, we had a motherboard which supported ECC ram and had ECC ram in it and which was

Re: [Patches avail?] Re: MMAP() in STABLE/CURRENT ...

1999-10-08 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
On Thu, Oct 07, 1999 at 10:09:23AM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: Intel's ECC implementation is not perfect (1), but it's good enough to catch these sorts of problems. Just as an interesting side note, we had a motherboard which supported ECC ram and had ECC ram in it and which

Re: [Patches avail?] Re: MMAP() in STABLE/CURRENT ...

1999-10-08 Thread David Greenman
On Thu, Oct 07, 1999 at 10:09:23AM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: Intel's ECC implementation is not perfect (1), but it's good enough to catch these sorts of problems. Just as an interesting side note, we had a motherboard which supported ECC ram and had ECC ram in it and which was

Re: [Patches avail?] Re: MMAP() in STABLE/CURRENT ...

1999-10-08 Thread Matthew Dillon
:ECC doesn't protect against certain types of motherboard address line : errors (since although the ECC is correct, the selected address is wrong, so : thus the data is wrong). There's parity protection on parts of the CPU : address bus, but I don't believe there is any protection between the

Re: [Patches avail?] Re: MMAP() in STABLE/CURRENT ...

1999-10-07 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Hi again, : : Whoops: a few hours after downgrading to 3.1-STABLE I had a double fault :error (strange, it didn't look like a normal panic screen, just the :message and the content of three registers, then the syncing disks :message). It seems that I might be wrong about hardware not being the

Re: [Patches avail?] Re: MMAP() in STABLE/CURRENT ...

1999-10-07 Thread Adrian Penisoara
Hi again, On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Adrian Penisoara wrote: hi again, On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: : The problem is that the machine is completely locked, I can't get into :the debugger with CTR-ALT-ESC; no panics so there are no coredumps :catched. Any advise ? Could you

Re: [Patches avail?] Re: MMAP() in STABLE/CURRENT ...

1999-10-07 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
:Hi again, : : Whoops: a few hours after downgrading to 3.1-STABLE I had a double fault :error (strange, it didn't look like a normal panic screen, just the :message and the content of three registers, then the syncing disks :message). It seems that I might be wrong about hardware not being

Re: [Patches avail?] Re: MMAP() in STABLE/CURRENT ...

1999-10-06 Thread Adrian Penisoara
hi again, On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: : The problem is that the machine is completely locked, I can't get into :the debugger with CTR-ALT-ESC; no panics so there are no coredumps :catched. Any advise ? Could you escape in the debugger when you were hit :by these bugs ?

Re: [Patches avail?] Re: MMAP() in STABLE/CURRENT ...

1999-10-05 Thread Adrian Penisoara
Hi, On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Adrian Penisoara wrote: I have a -stable production server that keeps (solidly) blocking pretty often (I don't get over 3 days uptimes). If you need details just let me know. Just to let you know: syncing every second in a loop like this: while true do

Re: [Patches avail?] Re: MMAP() in STABLE/CURRENT ...

1999-10-05 Thread Matthew Dillon
: The problem is that the machine is completely locked, I can't get into :the debugger with CTR-ALT-ESC; no panics so there are no coredumps :catched. Any advise ? Could you escape in the debugger when you were hit :by these bugs ? If it's completely locked up and ctl-alt-esc doesn't work

Re: [Patches avail?] Re: MMAP() in STABLE/CURRENT ...

1999-10-05 Thread Adrian Penisoara
Hi, On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: : Excuse my intrusion, but could you be so kind to tell me whether you had :the time to build patches for these MMAP-related freezes ? If not could :you recommend me some workarounds ? : : I have a -stable production server that keeps (solidly)

Re: [Patches avail?] Re: MMAP() in STABLE/CURRENT ...

1999-10-04 Thread The Hermit Hacker
On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Adrian Penisoara wrote: Excuse my intrusion, but could you be so kind to tell me whether you had the time to build patches for these MMAP-related freezes ? If not could you recommend me some workarounds ? doubling the ram from 384 - 768 meg appears to have fixed it for