I compiled in debugging code this evening and here is the first trap vm_fault(f86b3700, deadb000, 1, 0) -> 1 page fault trap in _sorflush + 0xf movl 0xc(%esi),%ecx the trace looked like this: _sorflush(deadbeef, ...) _unp_detach _uipc_usrreq _soclose _soo_close _closef _fdrelease _close syscall() + 0x1f9 syscall number 6 -j