Original query:
> Every few weeks we get a BAD TRAP crash, always involving sendmail. We
> are running the IDA sendmail from UIUC, version 5.65 plus a few local
> changes. Our machine is a Sun 4/280 with 128Mb memory running SunOS
> 4.1.
>
> Here are the first few lines from the console at the time of the crash:
>
> BAD TRAP
> pid 14086, `sendmail': Data fault
> kernel read fault at addr=0xf83a4fb4, pme=0x0
> Bus Error Reg 80<INVALID>
> pc=0xf8090c94, sp=0xf81fad30, psr=0x801ac2, context=0x0
Responses fell into 3 categories:
1. Install patch 1000092 (vm performance with large memory)
2. Install patch 1029939 (register window bug)
3. Upgrade to 4.1.1.
4. Replace CPU board.
I plan to do 3 real soon now. Meantime I have done 1 and 2. So far, so good.
Thanks to all who replied:
"Donald M. Craig" <dmc@taupe.tv.tek.com>
Frank Kuiper <frankk@cwi.nl>
ian@cypress.ucs.sfu.ca (Ian Reddy)
ira@cis.upenn.edu (Ira Winston)
mp@allegra.att.com (Mark Plotnick)
pbg@cs.brown.edu (Peter Galvin)
stern@sunne.East.Sun.COM (Hal Stern - Consultant)
synergy!sun!fourx.Aus!kevin@Sun.COM (Kevin Sheehan {Consulting Poster Child})
vasey@mcc.com (Ron Vasey)
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