Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 23:52:03 +1000 (EST) From: Darren Reed <darrenr@reed.wattle.id.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: (ref5) kdump: Cannout allocate memory Message-ID: <200107301352.XAA24834@avalon.reed.wattle.id.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0107302315330.916-100000@besplex.bde.org> from Bruce Evans at "Jul 30, 1 11:29:51 pm"
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In some email I received from Bruce Evans, sie wrote: > On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, Darren Reed wrote: > > > Using ktrace ref5, I created ~darrenr/ktrace.out with "ktrace -i cc ..." > > but trying to print it I get: > > % kdump -f ~/ktrace.out > lout > > kdump: Cannot allocate memory > > > > Is this stack corruption by kdump? ref5:~darrenr/ktrace.out is available > > for anyone who wants to diagnose this further. > > This is probably a corrupt ktrace record. Atomic writing of ktrace > records seems to have been broken in rev.1.37 of kern_ktrace.c. I've > only seen this problem when the output file is written to an nfs > filesystem. Hmmm, for what it's worth, running the ktrace command which caused that broken ktrace.out file to be created, multiple times, resulted in it being corrupt at the same location each time. Darren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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