Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 16:00:12 -0600 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> To: Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, rivers@lakes.dignus.com Subject: Re: 3.3 panics after running large programs... Message-ID: <19991111160011.B393@futuresouth.com> In-Reply-To: <199911112156.QAA00731@lakes.dignus.com> References: <199911112156.QAA00731@lakes.dignus.com>
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On Thu, Nov 11, 1999 at 04:56:02PM -0500, a little birdie told me
that Thomas David Rivers remarked
>
> Then, my machine is locked up hard - no dump is taken, so the
> subsequent reboot doesn't save any core. (I've believe I've got savecore
> set appropriately in /etc/rc.local:
> appropriately set in my /etc/rc.local
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I presume you mean rc.conf.
> I guess there are really two "prongs" to this:
>
> 1) Anyone noticed a panic similar to this?
No, but...
> 2) Is there any reason I'm not getting a nice savecore?
> The machine is simply hanging solid...
As a guess, if it's freaking out in the routines for the SCSI controller,
it might have trouble dumping to a drive on it; maybe it locks trying to
do it, or maybe it has enough (or too much ;) 'smarts' to not even try.
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