From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 22 12:51:16 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA13628 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 12:51:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id MAA13618; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 12:51:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id VAA12343; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 21:51:05 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id VAA15384; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 21:47:27 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970922214727.WW10801@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 21:47:27 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: joes@seaport.net (Joseph Stein) Subject: Re: Help... Unexplained crashes under RELENG_2_2 (last message in syslog is from atrun) References: <199709220513.WAA00814@shasta.wstein.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199709220513.WAA00814@shasta.wstein.com>; from Joseph Stein on Sep 21, 1997 22:13:18 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Joseph Stein wrote: > This system runs a plethora of daemons -- xntpd, named, sshd, httpd, ftpd, > rwhod -- am I merely overloading it? Or is there some bug in at/atrun? > > I have coredumps enabled but have not yet seen anything in /var/run/crash > from it. Do you have a dumpdev, too? The `savecore_enable' knob is history now (it was a bandaid only against savecore(8) not obeying its minfree file), but dumpdev remains a prerequisite for kernel core dumps. Can you run it on a serial console, with DDB enabled? (Maybe even over a modem line.) Does the machine provide NFS services, or act as a NFS client? I've seen a number of crashes on RELENG_2_2 lately that might be related to NFS. Is the CD-ROM regularly being used? I've seen another couple of crashes that might be related to a bug or two in the cd9660 f/s. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)