Date: Thu, 21 Dec 95 9:53:04 CST From: Joe Greco <jgreco@solaria.sol.net> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Problems with crash dumps not dumping Message-ID: <199512211553.JAA05169@solaria.sol.net>
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I've been trying to catch a useful crash dump under 2.1.0R on my news server. John Dyson had suggested that it would be helpful to see a crash dump in order to debug some VM/mmap issues (? etc) or something or other, I don't quite remember exactly what since it's been a few weeks. Anyways. I enabled the crash dump stuff, and when the machine panics with a "panic: free vnode isn't" error, it appears to start the dump but then locks with "dumping... XXXX" where XXXX is some fairly large number. The root drive light and controller activity light are both on (NCR-810). I've seen this happen several times now. I believe it worked correctly before the dumps were enabled. Also, again, I am noticing a direct correlation to running out of inodes and this particular panic. When my alt.* drive (4096/512) died, I moved the alt.* hierarchy onto my alt.binaries.* drive (8192/1024, less inodes) and I've been hitting 100% inodes every once in a while. ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847
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