Date: Sat, 16 Aug 1997 13:18:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Jamie Lawrence <jal@thirdwave.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bad Block - What To Do? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970816131629.7455E-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <v03102806b01a982f53c9@[205.217.47.88]>
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On Fri, 15 Aug 1997, Jamie Lawrence wrote:
> 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.
This isn't a disk error, it's an error from the free() system call.
Somehow the pointer to the memory block is being corrupted.
A reboot might be in order.
> I'm not entirely sure what this is telling me - more accesses
> the file just fine:
>
> abu: {69} more test.pm
> #!usr/bin/perl
>
First, if this is test.pm, what is test.pl? And you need an absolute path
on that first line:
#!/usr/bin/perl
> 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?
It's not a disk problem.
Doug White | University of Oregon
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