From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Oct 29 12:20:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFACA37B401 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 12:20:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from util.inch.com (ns.inch.com [216.223.192.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2638743E75 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 12:20:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from spork@inch.com) Received: from inch.com (inch.com [216.223.192.20]) by util.inch.com (8.12.6/8.12.6/UTIL-INCH-3.0.9) with ESMTP id g9TKKE1w067557; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 15:20:17 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from spork@inch.com) Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 15:20:14 -0500 (EST) From: Charles Sprickman To: Bart Smit Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with large memory configs? In-Reply-To: <20021029193808.F43305-100000@localhost> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Great article, but it doesn't address the "my system hangs but doesn't panic" issue. I'd love to blame hardware, but I'm seeing this in various configs. On one test box, we brought the machine down to 1GB total memory and have not seen the problem for almost 48 hours now... Charles -- Charles Sprickman spork@inch.com On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Bart Smit wrote: > On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Charles Sprickman wrote: > > > And if anyone has general troubleshooting tips for this sort of situation, > > Excellent story on this topic on: > > http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/03/21/Big_Scary_Daemons.html?page=1 > > This will at least tell you how to provide a decent record of what happened... > > --Bart > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message