From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Aug 29 08:01:57 1995 Return-Path: bugs-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id IAA07768 for bugs-outgoing; Tue, 29 Aug 1995 08:01:57 -0700 Received: from minnow.render.com (render.demon.co.uk [158.152.30.118]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id IAA07744 for ; Tue, 29 Aug 1995 08:01:49 -0700 Received: (from dfr@localhost) by minnow.render.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) id PAA22677; Tue, 29 Aug 1995 15:36:15 +0100 Date: Tue, 29 Aug 1995 15:36:12 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Marcus.John@wiesbaden.netsurf.de cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Diskless swapping panics->reboots In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: bugs-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 26 Aug 1995 Marcus.John@wiesbaden.netsurf.de wrote: > Hi Doug, > > last week I got a grip on a HP E35 running HP-UX 9.04 (A configuration that is > proposed accroding to the FreeBSD-Handbook), but the problem is still the same. > > When FreeBSD runs low on memory (vmstat reports ~ 100...150) it simply reboots. > > Further investigatin with a new kernel, built with config -g and an additional > savcore setting, showed up that there is *NO* panic, it simply dies quick. > > After the reboot you still see ~69k of junk data in the swapfile on the > NFS-Server. > > Perhaps this will give you, or anybody else, some more clues for this bug. Unfortunately, I am completely stuck on this. I also have virtually no time to spend on this stuff at the moment :-(. Does anyone else have any idea why diskless swapping is broken (in both current and stable)? -- Doug Rabson, Microsoft RenderMorphics Ltd. Mail: dfr@render.com Phone: +44 171 251 4411 FAX: +44 171 251 0939