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Date:      Sat, 11 Oct 2008 11:22:21 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Tuc <ml@t-b-o-h.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Worth persuing a KDB: stack backtrace: ?
Message-ID:  <200810111522.m9BFMM03097961@setup.house.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com>

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Hi,

	I have a 5.5-STABLE laptop thats been having issues lately, mostly
related to memory. I bought new chips, and I think I narrowed it down to one
of the Dimm slots being bad. I did a memtest for 25 hours and it seemed stable.
I started up and started downloading a backup of over 5K emails. (All have
to go through mimedefang, procmail and sendmail... So the system was a bit
sluggish. I started to get things like :

Oct 10 22:06:29 himinbjorg kernel: KDB: stack backtrace:
Oct 10 22:06:29 himinbjorg kernel: kdb_backtrace(c3053200,1,dbb54c04,dbb54bf0,c0
73ba78) at kdb_backtrace+0x29
Oct 10 22:06:29 himinbjorg kernel: getdirtybuf(dbb54be0,0,1,cc1c81e8,1) at getdi
rtybuf+0x27
Oct 10 22:06:29 himinbjorg kernel: flush_deplist(c305354c,1,dbb54c04) at flush_d
eplist+0x34
Oct 10 22:06:29 himinbjorg kernel: flush_inodedep_deps(c216d000,715e,c089bcf8,c0
808b16,ef) at flush_inodedep_deps+0x7d
Oct 10 22:06:29 himinbjorg kernel: softdep_sync_metadata(dbb54ca0) at softdep_sy
nc_metadata+0x8c
Oct 10 22:06:29 himinbjorg kernel: ffs_fsync(dbb54ca0) at ffs_fsync+0x33e
Oct 10 22:06:29 himinbjorg kernel: fsync(c3549600,dbb54d04,1,1,286) at fsync+0x1
03
Oct 10 22:06:29 himinbjorg kernel: syscall(2f,2f,bfbf002f,80fef20,0) at syscall+
0x227
Oct 10 22:06:29 himinbjorg kernel: Xint0x80_syscall() at Xint0x80_syscall+0x1f
Oct 10 22:06:29 himinbjorg kernel: --- syscall (95, FreeBSD ELF32, fsync), eip =
 0x28181ca7, esp = 0xbfbf6d1c, ebp = 0xbfbf86e8 ---


		and


Oct 10 22:08:21 himinbjorg kernel: KDB: stack backtrace:
Oct 10 22:08:21 himinbjorg kernel: kdb_backtrace(c345fe80,1,daf32c04,daf32bf0,c0
73ba78) at kdb_backtrace+0x29
Oct 10 22:08:21 himinbjorg kernel: getdirtybuf(daf32be0,0,1,cc22e334,1) at getdi
rtybuf+0x27
Oct 10 22:08:21 himinbjorg kernel: flush_deplist(c295a34c,1,daf32c04) at flush_d
eplist+0x34
Oct 10 22:08:21 himinbjorg kernel: flush_inodedep_deps(c216d000,72b7,c089bcf8,c0
808b16,ef) at flush_inodedep_deps+0x7d
Oct 10 22:08:21 himinbjorg kernel: softdep_sync_metadata(daf32ca0) at softdep_sy
nc_metadata+0x8c
Oct 10 22:08:21 himinbjorg kernel: ffs_fsync(daf32ca0) at ffs_fsync+0x33e
Oct 10 22:08:21 himinbjorg kernel: fsync(c2bc0600,daf32d04,1,1,286) at fsync+0x1
03
Oct 10 22:08:21 himinbjorg kernel: syscall(bfbf002f,bfbf002f,bfbf002f,80fef20,0)
 at syscall+0x227
Oct 10 22:08:21 himinbjorg kernel: Xint0x80_syscall() at Xint0x80_syscall+0x1f
Oct 10 22:08:21 himinbjorg kernel: --- syscall (95, FreeBSD ELF32, fsync), eip =
 0x28181ca7, esp = 0xbfbf6d1c, ebp = 0xbfbf86e8 ---

	infact.....................

himinbjorg% grep "KDB: stack" spool
Oct 10 22:06:29 himinbjorg kernel: KDB: stack backtrace:
Oct 10 22:06:29 himinbjorg kernel: KDB: stack backtrace:
Oct 10 22:06:29 himinbjorg kernel: KDB: stack backtrace:
Oct 10 22:08:21 himinbjorg kernel: KDB: stack backtrace:
Oct 10 22:09:23 himinbjorg kernel: KDB: stack backtrace:
Oct 10 22:09:57 himinbjorg kernel: KDB: stack backtrace:
Oct 10 22:10:08 himinbjorg kernel: KDB: stack backtrace:
Oct 10 22:10:43 himinbjorg kernel: KDB: stack backtrace:

	Since its 5.5, and the system seems to potentially not be "with it"
hardware wise, think its worth persuing what happened here?

			Thanks, Tuc



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