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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


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