From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 25 13:20:57 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id NAA11481 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 25 Oct 1995 13:20:57 -0700 Received: from io.org (io.org [142.77.70.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA11437 for ; Wed, 25 Oct 1995 13:20:08 -0700 Received: from flinch.io.org (flinch.io.org [198.133.36.153]) by io.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id QAA08589; Wed, 25 Oct 1995 16:19:23 -0400 Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1995 16:19:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Tao To: Andrew.Gordon@net-tel.co.uk cc: FREEBSD-HACKERS-L Subject: Re: Re(2): panic: free vnode isn't In-Reply-To: <"MAC-951025164255-1E49*/G=Andrew/S=Gordon/O=NET-TEL Computer Systems Ltd/PRMD=NET-TEL/ADMD=Gold 400/C=GB/"@MHS> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 25 Oct 1995 Andrew.Gordon@net-tel.co.uk wrote: > > Server is running 2.0.5R (with more recent SCSI drivers from -STABLE a > few weeks ago, probably not important). Ack, don't say that... I just downgraded our server to 2.0.5-RELEASE to see if that will give us longer uptimes. :-/ > The nature of the freeze is some kind of deadlock in the filesystem - > if you catch it just after the freeze, terminal/telnet sessions are > normally still alive, Yeah, it's more serious than that here. When the system locks up, everything is dead. As I said, I've put 2.0.5-RELEASE on with a kernel to handle a larger number of open files and mbuf clusters. The one major thing that is missing is the pcvt driver. Unfortunately, I can't rule out NFS because our anonymous FTP archive sits on a BSD/OS drive (which I don't think FreeBSD will recognize) and user home directories are mounted from another central server. I could probably move ftp.io.org over to another machine for a week (if 2.0.5R crashes in the next couple of days) and see what effect that has. -- Brian Tao (BT300, taob@io.org) Systems Administrator, Internex Online Inc. "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"