Hi Ron,

First off, have you reported this to HP Support?

The short answer to 'what does this mean' is: A page fault should not
ever occur during the very brief periods that interrupts are disabled.
If that happens then it may be an indicator of a much more serious
problem and it would probably not be wise to ignore that. Hence the
abort.

Interrupts are disabled and enabled around critical areas in the OS where
we cannot tolerate any unexpected context switch caused by an interrupt.
This would also be a very inappropriate place to find out something we
want/need is not where we want/need it to be.

The best way to prevent it is to have HP Support examine the memory
dump. Chances are there will be a patch to correct it. If not then
possible ways to avoid the problem may be possible based on what
the memory dump indicates.

I hope this helps!

Bill
HP/CSY

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-----Original Message-----
From: Ronald R Horner <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thursday, September 28, 2000 7:43 AM
Subject: [HP3000-L] What does this mean


My system went down this morning.  After following Stan Sieler's
instructions on figuring system failure errors, I came up this this
message:


> The MEMORY MANAGER encountered a page fault while interrupts were disabled.
>
What does it mean and can it be prevented?

Thanks!!

--
Ron Horner
HP3000 Systems Admin
JC Penney Co., Inc.
(414) 259-2274