From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 11 19:57:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 858C437B479 for ; Sat, 11 Nov 2000 19:57:17 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eAC3v7e22564; Sat, 11 Nov 2000 21:57:07 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 21:57:06 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Kyle McMartin Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kernel panic when drive i/o is high Message-ID: <20001111215706.B16005@dan.emsphone.com> References: <000701c04c58$f2b11b20$feb4fea9@slnt1.on.wave.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.11i In-Reply-To: <000701c04c58$f2b11b20$feb4fea9@slnt1.on.wave.home.com>; from "Kyle McMartin" on Sat Nov 11 22:30:47 GMT 2000 X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Nov 11), Kyle McMartin said: > Hello, I have recently been struck with these problems with FreeBSD. > When building world/installing world, or X, or some other large > program, my kernel panic's and I get a system reset with the > description, Giving up on 1 buffers. Go up 5 or 6 lines. The buffer message is printed after trying to sync the filesystems. The panic message is above that, and usually starts with the word "Panic". You might also want to enable crashdumps in /etc/rc (add a line reading dumpdev="/dev/da1s1b", but use whatever swap partition you have configured) and take a look at the dump it puts in /var/crash with gdb. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message