From owner-freebsd-current Sat Feb 6 09:58:52 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA03857 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 6 Feb 1999 09:58:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (post-20.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA03852 for ; Sat, 6 Feb 1999 09:58:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dom@myrddin.demon.co.uk) Received: from [158.152.54.180] (helo=myrddin.demon.co.uk) by post.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.10 #2) id 109C0F-0007YR-00; Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:58:47 +0000 Received: from localhost (myrddin.demon.co.uk) [127.0.0.1] by myrddin.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #1) id 109Bzb-0000L4-00; Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:58:07 +0000 To: David Malone Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Lots of "panic: vrele: negative ref cnt" References: <9902052103.aa20667@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> From: Dom Mitchell In-Reply-To: David Malone's message of "Fri, 05 Feb 1999 21:03:34 +0000" X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 17:58:07 +0000 Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David Malone writes: > We're getting lots of negative reference counts for 3.0-STABLE. We've been > getting them since long before Christmas. We have 3 SMP machines, all heavy > NFS clients, which are dieing about 1 per day with this panic. > > Several of these hangs have been provoked by me logging out - you can see > the ^D in the xterm - but everything dies before the window goes away. In > the trace below the it is closing my tty I think. > > We have also seen this happen with a write process trying to write to > someones tty. I've seen identical panics when using nmh's spost command to send mail. Instant panic saying "negative ref cnt". This is using an NFS mounted home directory (containing the draft mail to be sent). Unfortunately, I didn't have time to investigate further, so I just switched over to using SMTP instead. I'll try again on Monday to see if it's still doing it for me. -- When I said "we", officer, I was referring to myself, the four young ladies, and, of course, the goat. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message