From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 1 00:09:26 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA43516A41C for ; Wed, 1 Jun 2005 00:09:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from blackwater.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.135]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EAD243D49 for ; Wed, 1 Jun 2005 00:09:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by blackwater.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 3D8F08569C; Wed, 1 Jun 2005 09:39:24 +0930 (CST) Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 09:39:24 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Kevin Downey Message-ID: <20050601000924.GF35959@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <1d3ed48c0505302328349f2a0b@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="rWhLK7VZz0iBluhq" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1d3ed48c0505302328349f2a0b@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Crash Dump X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 00:09:26 -0000 --rWhLK7VZz0iBluhq Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Monday, 30 May 2005 at 23:28:38 -0700, Kevin Downey wrote: > first off: > FreeBSD zifnab 6.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT #0: Mon May 30 07:53:44 > PDT 2005 kevin@zifnab:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SEE_NO_EVIL i386 > built from sources cvsuped yesterday (the 29th of May) ontop of the > SNAP002 or whatever it was called from March. > > Now, I am getting what seem to me, to be random crashes. Of course > there are many things in this world which seem random to me because I > do not know what is going on. These crashes indubitably fall in to > this category of things. > I figure the best way to learn more about this is to ask other people. > And I also know that when asking other people, particular this list, > it is a good idea to be in possession of various background > information. But, and here is the twist, when the panic happens, the > 'dumping X megabytes of memory`, or whatever the exact wording is, > message pops up, and then just sits there for however long I am > willing to let the machine sit(2 hours is the upper limit on that). > The IDE activity LED does not blink(I assume it should be blinking if > the memory is being dumped to swap on an IDE drive), it does blink > when I hit keys on the keyboard. Sounds like the crash involves block I/O, so you're not able to dump. Try remote debugging. See the handbook or http://www.lemis.com/grog/Papers/Debug-tutorial/tutorial.pdf for details. > dmesg from the machine: http://kevin.is.a.zombie.org/dmesg > kernel config: http://kevin.is.a.zombie.org/SEE_NO_EVIL > > kevin@zifnab:~% swapinfo > Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity > /dev/ad0s1b 2572288 19972 2572288 1% This won't be your issue here, but the only important thing is that the swap partition should be slightly larger than RAM (about 64 kB or so). > And on a somewhat unrelated note, I get hard lockups(have to hit the > reboot button to reboot) when playing videos using xv(have not tried > other options). It does happen somewhat intermittently, mostly if I > play more than one video file in a row. We don't know yet if this is unrelated. Greg -- The virus contained in this message was not detected. Finger grog@FreeBSD.org for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --rWhLK7VZz0iBluhq Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCnPy0IubykFB6QiMRAm/zAJ9vb/nFVukFpb4+M1dPiTU5+BkDlACgs1l0 0A4cL6GwBM10Xu9xuZt179Q= =a5ow -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --rWhLK7VZz0iBluhq--