From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 8 15:45:19 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47C751065675 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2012 15:45:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dweimer@dweimer.net) Received: from webmail.dweimer.net (adsl-70-129-195-213.dsl.ksc2mo.swbell.net [70.129.195.213]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C13438FC0A for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2012 15:45:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from www.dweimer.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by webmail.dweimer.net (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q28FjARw001578 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2012 09:45:11 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dweimer@dweimer.net) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 10:45:10 -0500 From: "Dean E. Weimer" To: Mail-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-Sender: dweimer@dweimer.net User-Agent: RoundCube Webmail/0.6 Subject: Capturing Information About PANIC X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: dweimer@dweimer.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 15:45:19 -0000 I am having problems with my system panicking and crashing during Bacula backups. Is there any way short of enabling full memory dumps to log the output of the crash? After a reboot there is no information in the messages log, and dmesg generally only shows the information since the reboot started. The system is running FreeBSD9.0-RELEASE compiled from source, I had it running bacula backups for close to 2 weeks without a problem, but now it consistently crashes every night. The system is running the client directory and storage daemon, oddly enough it never crashes when backing up itself, but instead crashes when backing up one of the two remote systems. I was beginning to think that perhaps my recompile using clang was the problem, so I rebuilt the world and all ports without clang but the problem persists. I have tested my external eSATA drive on another system, and temporarily connected the drive to the internal SATA ports to rule out the eSATA controller and the backup drive as the source of the problems. This is the only drive in the system that is setup with GEOM_ELI encryption, so I can't rule out that the encryption process is causing a load that the motherboard/CPU/RAM is failing to cope with for hardware reasons. Though this system shouldn't have a problem keeping up. FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE #1: Tue Mar 6 18:42:48 CST 2012 dweimer@webmail.dweimer.local:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/VESAKERN amd64 CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 7750 Dual-Core Processor (2700.06-MHz K8-class CPU) Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x100f23 Family = 10 Model = 2 Stepping = 3 Features=0x178bfbff Features2=0x802009 AMD Features=0xee500800 AMD Features2=0x7ff TSC: P-state invariant real memory = 4294967296 (4096 MB) avail memory = 3843878912 (3665 MB) Event timer "LAPIC" quality 400 ACPI APIC Table: <072309 APIC1220> FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs FreeBSD/SMP: 1 package(s) x 2 core(s) cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0 cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 1 ioapic0 irqs 0-23 on motherboard kbd1 at kbdmux0 cryptosoft0: on motherboard -- Thanks, Dean E. Weimer http://www.dweimer.net/