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From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net>
To: Matt Harrington <matt@msg.ucsf.edu>
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Subject: Re: how to troubleshoot freezes?
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On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 07:02:03PM -0800, Matt Harrington wrote:
> 
> 
> My 4.2-stable server froze up this evening while under heavy NFS load.  I
> was a few hours into a "glimpseindex -o" on an NFS filesystem.  The load
> average hovered nicely at around 1.0.  since this is our main server, it
> had 49 NFS filesystems mounted.
> 
> anyhow, what does one do to troubleshoot freezes?  there is nothing useful
> in /var/log/messages, but i had seen many entries like the following
> earlier this week:

Freezes and NFS have a long association. How are you mounting the
NFSs?

> Dec  4 16:10:19 msg /kernel: got bad cookie vp 0xcf29ae00 bp 0xc643ba60
> Dec  4 16:24:48 msg /kernel: got bad cookie vp 0xcf319cc0 bp 0xc64a2ca0
> Dec  4 16:24:51 msg /kernel: got bad cookie vp 0xcf319cc0 bp 0xc649b950
> 
> hardware = athlon 750, abit ka7-100, mylex raid controller, 256MB ECC ram.
> 
> or am i S.O.L. since it's PC hardware?  i'm used to computers from DEC and 
> SGI which tell you nice things when crashing like, "SIMM in slot 2 is 
> bad".  unfortunately i haven't seen such capable diagnostics on PC 
> hardware except on high-end IBM servers.

But you implied had a freeze and not crash?
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@alum.mit.edu


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