From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Dec 19 18:32:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA21906 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sat, 19 Dec 1998 18:32:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from multivac.fatburen.org (multivac.fatburen.org [62.20.128.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA21898 for ; Sat, 19 Dec 1998 18:32:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from staffanu@multivac.fatburen.org) Received: (from staffanu@localhost) by multivac.fatburen.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA10164; Sun, 20 Dec 1998 03:31:58 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from staffanu) To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Kernel panic Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.106) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Staffan Ulfberg Date: 20 Dec 1998 03:31:52 +0100 Message-ID: <873e6b1r3b.fsf@multivac.fatburen.org> Lines: 25 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 20.2 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I had a kernel panic on my 2.2.8 system a few days ago; just thought I'd tell you about it. You might think I'm totally stupid after reading my description of what caused it, and I probably was at the time: it was sometime around 4.30am... I was running two programs that both use mmap() on the same 500MB file. I killed one of the programs and forgot about the other, and wanted to delete the file and make a new one with all zeros. Deleting the file made it disappear from the directory listing allright, but didn't free up any disk space, so I couldn't create a new 500MB file on that partition. Hmmmm... What to do? Well, I did fsck on the live filesystem and answered yes on the question of whether I wanted to recover 500MB of "lost" file space. Then, I suddenly remembered that other program running, and well, of course I realized why the space for the file hadn't been available earlier... Anyway, I killed that other program too, which had the kernel panic. I sort of think that a kernel panic is a bug, regardless of the level of stupidity needed to trigger it. Any comments? Staffan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message