Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 12:03:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Sonja Jo Krenz-Bush <begonia@itchy.serv.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: help! system crashing 2-4 times a day with vinvalbuf - flush failed Message-ID: <Pine.BSD.3.91.960925114814.1777A-100000@itchy.serv.net>
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Our server, which had been running fine for the last 7 months started crashing 2-4 times a day this week. Today, I finally managed to see the error message echoed to the console (or part of it). It said: vinvalbuf - flush failed We're running FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE. This system serves as web server and shell access server. Usually around 6-10 people logged on, most of them reading mail and/or news. Things I have noticed - we've had some unkillable processes that were mail related - ie, /usr/bin/mail, pine, RMAIL, etc... Crashes seem to happen when something like this is going on. In the past, this had happened occascionally but never crashed the system. Things that have changed: our /usr/spool/mail is NFS mounted from the mail server. Earlier this week, the drive on the mail server started giving us problems so we replaced it. The mail server itself isn't having any problems since we replaced the disk and is running FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE. Is this something that is fixed in 2.1.5R? Let me know if I need to give additional information - I'm not the person who primarily does this but wanted to get started on figuring this out right away. Thanks. Sonja Jo Krenz-Bush ServNet/Abstract Software sjkb@abstractsoft.com http://www.serv.net/~begonia ``Just another one of the flock following the herd.''
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