[wplug-bsd] Frequent page faults -- getting on my nerves

[Poyner, Brandon]

Unless you have a specific reason I would suggest avoiding -STABLE and
go straight to -RELEASE.  -STABLE does not refer to how stable the OS
is, but rather the stage of the development process.  -STABLE is often
anything but stable.  

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng/index.html

Brandon Poyner
Network Engineer III
CCAC - College Office
412-237-3086
 

-----Original Message-----
From: wplug-bsd-bounces+bpoyner=ccac.edu at wplug.org
[mailto:wplug-bsd-bounces+bpoyner=ccac.edu at wplug.org] On Behalf Of Bill
Moran
Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 8:34 AM
To: Brandon Kuczenski
Cc: wplug-bsd at wplug.org
Subject: Re: [wplug-bsd] Frequent page faults -- getting on my nerves

Brandon Kuczenski <brandon at 301south.net> wrote:
> I've been running freeBSD 4.10 ("stable") since around August 1.  My 
> longest uptime is about 30 days.  Every time there is a crash due to a

> page fault by a process associated with httpd.  At the time of the
last 
> crash, about an hour ago, apache was version 2.0.52_3.  I've since 
> upgraded to the latest: 2.0.53_1, but in every case in the past,
upgrading 
> has not made the problem go away.

If this is happening this often, you can debug the kernel.
First, subscribe to one of the FreeBSD developer lists.  Then update to
the
current 4.x-STABLE (4.10 has been superceded by 4.11).  Then, follow the
instructions below to set up your system to debug the problem: