From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Oct 21 23:30:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D61737B401 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 23:30:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailhub.webcraft99.com (beta.webcraft99.com [202.188.124.52]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1760143E3B for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 23:30:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from afu-subscribed-list@aeefyu.net) Received: from localhost (beta.webcraft99.com [127.0.0.1]) by mailhub.webcraft99.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EE8419311; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 14:36:14 +0800 (MYT) Received: from krista.webcraft99.net (unknown [203.82.80.55]) by mailhub.webcraft99.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C26C01932D; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 14:36:03 +0800 (MYT) Subject: Re: Random Crashes in 4.7 when transferring large files From: Al-Afu Reply-To: afu-subscribed-list@aeefyu.net To: Mike Tancsa Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20021018075222.05f207b8@192.168.0.12> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20021018075222.05f207b8@192.168.0.12> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 Date: 22 Oct 2002 14:21:41 +0800 Message-Id: <1035267709.580.16.camel@krista.webcraft99.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS new-20020517 X-Razor-id: 1c48269656c2f218e2f0c484e4da1fc261bdc503 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Following my last week's post: Host crashing when transferring large files (>100MB) over from my 4.7-RELEASE vmware host to a remote SMB server: ------------- I have added the following to my kernel config: makeoptions DEBUG=-g options DDB Then did: cd /usr/src && make clean && make cleandir && make buildkernel kernconf=KERNEL && make installkernel kernconf=KERNEL (however, there arent two copies of kernel built as described by the FAQ (/kernel and /kernel.debug) I edited my /etc/rc.conf to the following: dumpdev="/dev/ad2s1e" dumpdir="/var/crash" HOWEVER, my /var/crash doesnt contain any core dumps, even after multiple panics ( i simple copied over some large files to a remote host to crash my 4.7-RELEASE) Even did a "dumpon /dev/ad2s1e" to no avail. I can confirm that /dev/ad2s1e exists and is of 1024MB partition, whereas my system memory is 768MB. Did I leave anything out? Thanks again On Fri, 2002-10-18 at 19:55, Mike Tancsa wrote: > > Have a look in the handbook on how to build a debug kernel and how to > capture a panic via a crash dump. If you find its crashing in the same > place (ie. you load up the core dump file and it tells you its the same in > the code) then its possibly a FreeBSD issue. If its crashing in random > places each time, its more than likely a hardware issue. > > ---Mike > > At 03:11 PM 10/18/2002 +0800, Feisal Umar wrote: > >I am frequently encountering crashes on my 4.7 workstation. The common > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 > Sentex Communications, mike@sentex.net > Providing Internet since 1994 www.sentex.net > Cambridge, Ontario Canada www.sentex.net/mike > > > -- Al-Afu Webcraft Sdn Bhd - http://www.webcraftsolutions.com - http://www.webcraftworks.com -------------------------------------- "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it." -- Donald Knuth To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message