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Date:      Sat, 10 Feb 1996 12:55:32 -0800 (PST)
From:      Neal Westfall <nwestfal@Vorlon.odc.net>
To:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   can't free vnode
Message-ID:  <199602102055.MAA07072@Vorlon.odc.net>

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I have a news server here running FreeBSD-stable and INN 1.4-unoff and I
am having a consistent problem of kernel panics.  The reason for the
panic is usually something to the effect of "can't free vnode; free vnode
isn't".

This has been a problem ever since we first installed FreeBSD 2.0.5 on
the machine and we have tried upgrading everything, even to the point
of downloading the src tree for -stable and all the ctm deltas and
running a make world.  All to no avail, we still have the same
problems as before.

It should be noted that we are running INN 1.4-unoff and didn't build
it from the ports collection, since we wanted the bug fixes in
INN 1.4-unoff.

What makes the problem even worse is that when it panics, it doesn't
automatically reboot the machine, it requires that somebody hit a
key to reboot.   The last panic occurred at 2:30 last night and we
didn't discover it was hanged until 11:00 this morning.

We have heard that FreeBSD is a more appropriate operating system
for a news server than Linux because of performance and stability
issues.  However, if we can't figure out what is causing these
problems, we will have to switch to Linux because this occurs
almost every day.

Any help is appreciated.

Neal Westfall					nwestfal@odc.net
Digital Odyssey




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