From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 30 9: 5:21 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D27A237B401 for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 09:05:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (ns0.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.69.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30C6A43F79 for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 09:05:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0UH570F061222 for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 17:05:07 GMT (envelope-from matthew@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: (from matthew@localhost) by happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h0UH524t061221 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 17:05:02 GMT Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 17:05:02 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: writing to vinum volume causes crash Message-ID: <20030130170502.GC60716@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> Mail-Followup-To: Matthew Seaman , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20030130145550.66842.qmail@web12806.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030130145550.66842.qmail@web12806.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=IN_REP_TO,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_01_02,USER_AGENT, USER_AGENT_MUTT version=2.43 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 06:55:50AM -0800, steve heistand wrote: > (I first sent this to questions@freebsd.org > which isnt what I wanted. I think. sorry if there is > 2) No, you were right first time. questions@freebsd.org and freebsd-questions@freebsd.org are two names for the same list > I have a machine running 4.7-release (possibly and old > build) with 4 disks I am using vinum to make a raid5 > volume out of. When I write large amounts of data > to it the machine crashes. > I can dd one big file and it crashes at 154M, > if I copy in smaller files it dies around 100M > (varies) Have you looked at the http://www.vinumvm.org/vinum/how-to-debug.html page? It's going to be practically impossible to help you unless you can supply a whole lot more detailed information about what's gone wrong. You'll probably find these articles helpful too: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/03/21/Big_Scary_Daemons.html http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/04/Big_Scary_Daemons.html Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message