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Subject: 128M RAM problems 
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>Number:         2890
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       System panic after kernel compiled for 128M RAM
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          support
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Mar  5 19:00:02 PST 1997
>Closed-Date:    Sun Mar 22 11:36:30 PST 1998
>Last-Modified:  Sun Mar 22 11:40:01 PST 1998
>Originator:     Dave Robinson
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.2-970225-GAMMA i386
>Organization:
The Only Net
>Environment:
Pentium-133, 128M RAM, 2 2.5 gig ide hard drives, ne2000 ethernet,8900d Trident video card, 8x Standard CDROM, Standard floppy    

	

>Description:
FreeBSD seems to run fine until re-compile GENERIC kernel to
recognize 128M RAM.  Also panicked when recompiled LINT kernel.  So far 2 of 
the messages retrieved are:
1.
panic: vrele: negative reference cnt

2.
vm_page_free: pindex(32),busy(-202244992),PG_BUSY(-264108376),hold(-264108296)

panic: vm_page_free: freeing busy page

The machine is under no load currently, just trying to set it up as a server.  
Nothing has been loaded into it except FreeBSD.
Not sure what some of the other panic messages were.  I did have some mentioning
page fault but didn't get them written down.  I pulled out the RAM and reseated them but still getting the panic message.  Any help you can give will be greatly
 appreciated.

 Thanks

 Dave Robinson
 gooddr@theonlynet.com
	

>How-To-Repeat:
No particular pattern to repeat, just logging in and attempting to do simple tasks such as adduser, top, telnet, etc.  It only takes a few 
minutes of simple commands until it panics.

	

>Fix:
	
	

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
Responsible-Changed-From-To: gnats-admin->freebsd-bugs 
Responsible-Changed-By: gpalmer 
Responsible-Changed-When: Wed Mar 5 19:04:24 PST 1997 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Misfiled PR 
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: steve 
State-Changed-When: Sun Mar 22 11:36:30 PST 1998 
State-Changed-Why:  
Mail ping to originator failed.  2.2.5 does indeed work with 128Mb. 

From: Studded <Studded@dal.net>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, gooddr@ns3.theonlynet.com
Cc:  Subject: Re: kern/2890: System panic after kernel compiled for 128M RAM
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 11:29:33 -0800

 Mail to originator fails with "user unknown."
 
 Doug
>Unformatted:
X-ref PR# 2901
