From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Dec 21 07:52:40 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id HAA14009 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 21 Dec 1995 07:52:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from anacreon.sol.net (anacreon.sol.net [206.55.64.116]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA14002 for ; Thu, 21 Dec 1995 07:52:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from solaria.sol.net (solaria.sol.net [206.55.65.75]) by anacreon.sol.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id JAA04739 for ; Thu, 21 Dec 1995 09:51:50 -0600 Received: from localhost by solaria.sol.net (8.5/8.5) id JAA05169; Thu, 21 Dec 1995 09:53:06 -0600 From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <199512211553.JAA05169@solaria.sol.net> Subject: Problems with crash dumps not dumping To: hackers@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 21 Dec 95 9:53:04 CST Reply-To: jgreco@mei.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL65] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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