Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 17:03:14 -0500 (EST) From: Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com> To: fullermd@futuresouth.com, rivers@dignus.com Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, rivers@lakes.dignus.com Subject: Re: 3.3 panics after running large programs... Message-ID: <199911112203.RAA00845@lakes.dignus.com> In-Reply-To: <19991111160011.B393@futuresouth.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... I didn't believe it would be too frequent - certainly people have run large programs on 3.3-RELEASE and aha2940s without problems... I do as well - but there seems to be this one that reliably causes the panic... > > > 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. > > > Ah - good point. I only enabled dumpdev yesterday - it was hanging like this before (but that doesn't mean it wasn't trying to dump, and failing...) I'm about to try using DDB to see if I can at least keep the keyboard up... - Dave R. - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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