From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 1 21:20:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA27474 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 1 Nov 1996 21:20:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from dg-rtp.dg.com (dg-rtp.rtp.dg.com [128.222.1.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA27457 for ; Fri, 1 Nov 1996 21:20:38 -0800 (PST) Received: by dg-rtp.dg.com (5.4R3.10/dg-rtp-v02) id AA06196; Sat, 2 Nov 1996 00:20:06 -0500 Received: from ponds by dg-rtp.dg.com.rtp.dg.com; Sat, 2 Nov 1996 00:20 EST Received: from lakes.water.net (lakes [10.0.0.3]) by ponds.water.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA17530; Fri, 1 Nov 1996 20:55:49 -0500 (EST) Received: (from rivers@localhost) by lakes.water.net (8.7.5/8.6.9) id UAA00250; Fri, 1 Nov 1996 20:56:35 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 20:56:35 -0500 (EST) From: Thomas David Rivers Message-Id: <199611020156.UAA00250@lakes.water.net> To: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, ponds!atrad.adelaide.edu.au!msmith Subject: Re: Another data point in the daily panics... Cc: ponds!freefall.freebsd.org!freebsd-hackers, ponds!uswest.net!greg, ponds!brasil.moneng.mei.com!jgreco, ponds!ocean.campus.luth.se!karpen, ponds!ponds!rivers Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Everyone - As an example of something that crashes 2.1.5 (fairly quickly, I may add) and will not likely be determined by 'crashme'. I offer the following shell script. This shell script has the other attribute that it behaves somewhat like a news server that's frequently expiring and getting news batches 24 hours a day (i.e. deleting a lot of files and altering others). This was reported against 2.2-current about a month ago. If you run about eight instances of this shell script in the same directory; you're machine will reboot... [I just got through recovering from the reboot myself.] I don't think it has anything to do with my particular problem, since the panic isn't for the same reason. I just wanted to show it as an example of a similar type of problem that crashme would not diagnose. If anyone has access to a LINUX box - I'd be interested in hearing what happens if you perform the same test there... - Dave Rivers - ---------------------- cut here ---------------- #!/bin/sh mkdir loser while true do touch loser/abc mv loser/abc loser/def done