From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 20 9:34:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mojave.worldwide.lemis.com (picasso.transbay.net [209.133.53.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D68F314A00 for ; Wed, 20 Oct 1999 09:34:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: (grog@localhost) by mojave.worldwide.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.6.12) id LAA02666; Tue, 19 Oct 1999 11:41:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <19991019114151.42479@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 11:41:51 -0700 From: Greg Lehey To: Adam Nealis Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: vinum - How long does it take to perform operation X? References: <38075030.7F681CE8@csl.com> <19991017123346.46381@mojave.lemis.com> <380CAEAA.AE9201E1@csl.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: <380CAEAA.AE9201E1@csl.com>; from Adam Nealis on Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 06:47:22PM +0100 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, 19 October 1999 at 18:47:22 +0100, Adam Nealis wrote: > Greg Lehey wrote: >> >> On Friday, 15 October 1999 at 17:02:56 +0100, Adam Nealis wrote: >>> I don't mount them on boot either, as I quickly discovered vinum >>> dumps core if you try to operate on mount devices. >> >> If you get any kind of dump from Vinum, I want to know about it. > Would you like me to send you the next vinum.core I get? Is this a dump from vinum(8)? That would be new. I certainly don't want you to send me a 200 MB panic dump. > I didn't mention I was finding it very easy to get panics, and > once I got a complete lock up! Meaning I had to power cycle the > box to reboot it. OK, but that's what I want to know about. > I wouldn't be surprised if I'm doing something(s) wrong, but is it > really this easy to hang a box using vinum? It shouldn't be. But if nobody who runs into a problem tells me about it, I can't fix it. >>> I decided to clear out any cruft with >>> >>> bash 2.03# vinum resetconfig >>> >>> Enter Text -> NO FUTURE >>> >>> and it's been over an hour and the command doesn't seem to have >>> completed. >> >> That should be just about instantaneous. > > When I ^C'd that one I got a message saying that the operation had > completed. I may have tried it again later, and caused a panic. OK, follow the instructions for analysing a panic. >>> I don't understand why this is taking so long. I'm becoming >>> confused! >> >> I haven't seen this before. What does 'ps lawx' say? Output to a >> file and then attach it. >> >> After that, reboot your machine and try the 'vinum create' again. If >> it hangs, I'd like to see the output of 'ps lawx' at that point. > > I'll try and do this. > > I'll also figure out how to put in a debug kernel, etc. There's a description in the web page. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message