Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 23:58:14 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Tao <taob@io.org> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Web server locks up... but not quite. (?) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960219235450.17580X-100000@zip.io.org> In-Reply-To: <199602170804.JAA08102@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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On Sat, 17 Feb 1996, J Wunsch wrote:
>
> Hmm, we've also experienced these symptoms at sax.sax.de (small local
> non-commercial ISP), and i admit that i've basically been suspecting
> hardware in the first place. Your reports make me nervous however
> that it might be software. The system is plain 2.0.5R.
Could be... some sort of deadlock in the VM paging routines? :(
> Brian, if you got physical access to the box, try placing a simple
> card into the PC that hooks ISA pins A1/B1 to a pushbutton. Pushing
> it will cause an NMI (``IO channel check condition''), hopefully
> leaving you a coredump.
Uh, what? :) I'm a hardware klutz. I'm happy that I was able to
hook up nine hard drives to the news server today and have it running
on the first try. :) I do have console access... how do I get a
kernel core dump while using the pcvt driver? Ctrl-Alt-Esc doesn't
seem to do anything.
--
Brian Tao (BT300, taob@io.org)
Systems Administrator, Internex Online Inc.
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"
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