| Title: | DIGITAL UNIX (FORMERLY KNOWN AS DEC OSF/1) |
| Notice: | Welcome to the Digital UNIX Conference |
| Moderator: | SMURF::DENHAM |
| Created: | Thu Mar 16 1995 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 10068 |
| Total number of notes: | 35879 |
My unix 4.0 on alpha station 500 has been crashing so frequently that I
am starting to wonder how does it provide enterprise wide commercial
solution. Yes, it happens most of the time while using netscape. The disk
makes a screeching sound, appears as if doing reads or write and volla there
it goes down with the following message on the screen
pvp0: SIGKILL RM pid 521
and then I get the login prompt.
Any dec unix gurus ...
FYI: I have
vmunix: Digital UNIX V4.0B (Rev. 564); Fri Feb 21 16:08:01 PST 1997
vmunix: physical memory = 128.00 megabytes
vmunix: available memory = 113.90 megabytes
vmunix: using 483 buffers containing 3.77 megabytes of memory
vmunix: Firmware revision: 6.3
vmunix: PALcode: OSF version 1.21
vmunix: Digital AlphaStation 500/333
vmunix: Mem_size = 131981312, consmem = 273
vmunix: Sysconfigtab PCI_Option entry 28 invalid.
If need more info, let me know.
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| 9436.1 | SMURF::DENHAM | Digital UNIX Kernel | Wed Apr 09 1997 11:59 | 8 | |
Oh, I'd say a little more info is needed.
First -- what do you mean by "crash." System crashes don't get
you to the login prompt. Maybe the console prompt.
So please clarify -- system crash, or a program "crashing"?
If a system crash, then there's really nothing here
to go on at all.
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| 9436.2 | Try newest Open 3D kit | HYDRA::DONSBACH | Jeff Donsbach, Software Partner Engineering, DTN 297-6862 | Wed Apr 09 1997 12:24 | 21 |
The "pvp0" in .0 indicates you have a ZLXp-L* graphics card.
There have been known problems with crashes and such, especially
with Netcape. There are supposed to be fixes in the latest Open3D
kit (4.3). Try installing that and see if it makes things better.
I know of two L2 crashes fixed in the kit and one of them was related
to Netscape (the other brought to the surface by the dxladebug call
stack pulldown).
You can copy (via DECNet)
gqa22::/usr/users/open3d_kits/v430_ssb/O3D430/O3D430.tar
to your workstation, untar it and use "setld -l" to install it (as
root). If you have an older version of Open3D installed now, delete
that one first.
If you still have problems, seek help in BGSDEV::OPEN3D
Hope this helps!
-Jeff D.
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