From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 15 22:40:50 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org 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 24D7E16A41F for ; Tue, 15 Nov 2005 22:40:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D3FA43D46 for ; Tue, 15 Nov 2005 22:40:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0DAE1A3C2A; Tue, 15 Nov 2005 14:40:48 -0800 (PST) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1879B51516; Tue, 15 Nov 2005 17:40:47 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 17:40:47 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway To: Johny Mattsson Message-ID: <20051115224047.GA64624@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20051115065740.GH39882@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> <20051115101537.38820.qmail@web36208.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20051115181822.GB76352@green.homeunix.org> <55810.213.236.228.129.1132087797.squirrel@mail.adventuras.no> <437A60A3.4030305@earthmagic.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="pf9I7BMVVzbSWLtt" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <437A60A3.4030305@earthmagic.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Swapfile problem in 6? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 22:40:50 -0000 --pf9I7BMVVzbSWLtt Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 09:26:43AM +1100, Johny Mattsson wrote: > On 11/16/05 07:49, Lars Kristiansen wrote: > >I had an infinite while loop running during the > >kernel compilation, printing out 'swapinfo' every > >15 seconds. The last output before the machine goes > >dead is this: > > > >/dev/ad0s1b 39848 11820 39848 30% > >/dev/md0 131072 5908 131072 5% > >Total 170920 17728 153192 10% >=20 > Quite possibly not related, but on 5.4 I can reliably cause a panic by=20 > attaching md0 to a file residing on an NFS drive and then use it for=20 > swap. After 3-5k of used swap on md0, the box dies and reboots. If I run= =20 > "swapon" directly on the NFS file, things work fine, but it did mean=20 > that I couldn't use the default "addswap" rc script to set up the swap=20 > on my diskless system. > I'm not sure whether it's supposed to work or not, but I haven't had=20 > time to look into it yet. Just thought it might be another datapoint for= =20 > someone in the know to consider, just in case it is related. It's a situation few people have probably tried. If it persists on 6.0, please go through the same reporting procedure (debugging traceback, file PR). Kris --pf9I7BMVVzbSWLtt Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDemPuWry0BWjoQKURAp2SAKCSuripIE89/maQRakbfJHwrgPa4gCg93ry xF8co63bssCZNngzXDWNTkI= =CXTD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --pf9I7BMVVzbSWLtt--