From owner-freebsd-questions  Fri Aug 15 15:41:37 1997
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions>
Received: (from root@localhost)
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA23007
          for questions-outgoing; Fri, 15 Aug 1997 15:41:37 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from colonel.42inc.com (colonel.42inc.com [205.217.47.81])
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA22994
          for <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; Fri, 15 Aug 1997 15:41:26 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from [205.217.47.88] (vegas.42inc.com [205.217.47.88]) by colonel.42inc.com (8.8.5/8.6.12) with ESMTP id PAA00529 for <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; Fri, 15 Aug 1997 15:41:24 -0700 (PDT)
X-Sender: jal@205.217.47.82
Message-Id: <v03102806b01a982f53c9@[205.217.47.88]>
In-Reply-To: <199708152201.RAA00904@dyson.iquest.net>
References: <Pine.LNX.3.96.970814222053.136C-100000@gromit.nev.ml.org>
 from Paul Dekkers at "Aug 14, 97 10:23:19 pm"
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 15:40:25 -0800
To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
From: Jamie Lawrence <jal@thirdwave.com>
Subject: Bad Block - What To Do?
Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
X-Loop: FreeBSD.org
Precedence: bulk

Hi all -

True to form, I seem to be having problems just when my server
is going under a heavy load.

abu: {68} ./test.pl
free(69408) bad block. (memtop = 7e800 membot = 527d0)
./test.cgi: Bad file descriptor.


I'm not entirely sure what this is telling me - more accesses
the file just fine:

abu: {69} more test.pm
#!usr/bin/perl

print <<EOF;

This is merely a stupid test

EOF
abu: {70}


I'm running FreeBSD 2.1.7.

I guess I'm asking what to do about this - I'm assuming I need
to reformat the drive, but praying I don't. Any hints?

-j

--
  "I am about to, or going to, die. Either expression is used."
     --Last words of Mme. Brouhors, Grammarian, August, 1752.
__________________________________________________________________
jamie@42is.com              Special Agent              jal@acm.org