Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 15:47:43 -0400 From: Steve Shorter <steve@nomad.lets.net> To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vnode_pager_putpages errors and DOS? Message-ID: <20041008194743.GB38115@nomad.lets.net> In-Reply-To: <20041008184048.GA37831@nomad.lets.net> References: <20041008184048.GA37831@nomad.lets.net>
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On Thu, Jan 01, 1970 at 12:00:00AM +0000, Steve Shorter wrote: > Howdy! > > FreeBSD 4-10 > > I have some machines that run customers cgi stuff. > These machines have started to hang and become unresponsive. > At first I thought it was a hardware issue, but I discovered in > a cyclades log the following stuff that got logged to the > console which explains the cause of the system hangs/failures. > > vnode_pager_putpages: residual I/O 65536 at 347 > vnode_pager_putpages: I/O error 28] > vnode_pager_putpages: residual I/O 65536 at 285] Aha! also at the same time I get in syslog /kernel: pid 6 (syncer), uid 0 on /chroot/tmp: file system full Whats happening? Can a full filesystem bring the thing down? Ideas? Fixes? thanx - steve > > Zillions of them. > > The only way to recover the machine is to power cycle > it. > > From what I can tell from google etc.. and someone elses > experience it is probably the consequence of someone filling > up /var/tmp or something. > > Should a non root user program be able to DOS > a machine like this? or What is the cause and/or fix for this? > > > thanx - steve > > > > > > > "The age of the Internet has a right to its own music." > > http://www.linuxsuite.org > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > >
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