Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 11:23:27 -0800 (PST) From: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> To: Chris Williams <psion@geekspace.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tcpdump bringing down machine!?! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9811091121100.22595-100000@shell.uniserve.ca> In-Reply-To: <364669F0.F859EFBB@geekspace.com>
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On Sun, 8 Nov 1998, Chris Williams wrote: > I had tcpdump running, dumping to a file on its very own seperate slice. > It apparently filled up the slice, and that slowly brought the machine > down until it rebooted itself...WHY? Probably because since tcpdump was unable to write out data, it wasn't processing new packets either. Most likely this created a backlog and ate all all your mbufs (see netstat -m). Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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