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- From: di@athena.mit.edu (David Israel)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: SS2 crashes about half the time when Sparcprinter is used
- Summary: "Panic - memory fault" ends random print jobs
- Keywords: SparcStation SunOs 4.1.2 SparcPrinter NeWsPrint 2.0 CRASH
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.023630.12003@athena.mit.edu>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 02:36:30 GMT
- Sender: di@hstbme.mit.edu
- Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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- I have a SparcStation-2 running SunOs 4.1.2 with the standard SparcPrinter
- setup. The SparcPrinter is running NeWSprint version 2. The system is
- configured with 64Mb RAM, 128 Mb swap-space, and is running OW 2.
- The kernel is basically the "GENERIC_SMALL-ASYNCHIO" kernel, with the
- 2nd scsi disk commented out, maxusers=8, and the following options turned
- on: QUOTA, TMPFS, IPCMESSAGE, IPCSEMAPHORE, IPCSHMEM.
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- The whole thing chugs along happily unless the printer is used.
- A job sent to the printer might be printed fine, but about half the time,
- it will stop in the middle because the entire system has crashed. On the
- couple of occasions that I've seen the console error messages they have
- included "Panic - memory fault", but more often than not, the screen will
- have been "screenblank"ed (there's usually no one sitting at the console),
- so I've only seen this a couple of times. After the crash, the system
- usually does NOT respond to L1-A, and I have to cycle the power to revive it.
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- My memory is unclear on whether these problems have only started since the
- kernel was reconfigured as above, or whether they existed when I was using
- the "GENERIC_SMALL-ASYNCHIO" kernel, since it took some time to
- realize that the crashes were triggered by printing. I also have an
- older SS-2 running 4.1.1b and NeWsPrint 1, and have never had similar
- problems. Anybody have a clue? Thanks.
-
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- David A. Israel (di@nexus.mgh.harvard.edu, di@hstbme.mit.edu)
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- Please do NOT reply to di@athena.mit.edu, it won't reach me.
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