From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Feb 1 6:18:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from keyser.soze.com (keyser.soze.com [194.165.93.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E376537B698; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 06:18:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from erg.verweg.com ([132.229.90.89]) by keyser.soze.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA18398; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 15:18:14 +0100 (CET) Received: (from ruben@localhost) by erg.verweg.com (8.9.3+3.2W/8.9.3) id PAA01968; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 15:26:56 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 15:26:55 +0100 From: Ruben van Staveren To: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis Cc: Yusuf Goolamabbas , Luigi Rizzo , freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bridging and dummynet seems to destroy dmesg output Message-ID: <20010201152654.A1816@erg.verweg.com> References: <3A787124.B307EC20@jonny.eng.br> <200101312012.f0VKCGB07532@iguana.aciri.org> <20010201135551.A13446@outblaze.com> <3A795660.687791E6@jonny.eng.br> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <3A795660.687791E6@jonny.eng.br>; from jonny@jonny.eng.br on Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 10:28:16AM -0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > > > > > > I sent these files in private. But I remembered that I have another > > > > unusual config in this machine: is is multiprocessed, and has 10 SCSI disks > > > > and lots of SYSV shared memory. > > > > > > i think SMP might have something to do with it. Yusuf, are you also > > > using an SMP box ? > > > > The strange thing is that if I turn on verbose logging (via sysctl) but > > don't turn on verbose_limit, dmesg seems to get corrupted. If I have > > > > So, it seems some combination of verbose logging and non setting of > > verbose limit [or the default setting of verbose limit] is causing this > > problem > > Just in case nobody has yet noticed, this is for sure a case of lost > pointer. And if the kernel is not yet crashing is just mere luck! Time to > audit changes since -release? Eh no. I've experienced panic's at the end of /etc/rc, just before going multiuser. When I disable firewalling in /etc/rc.conf the system boots up fine. (although it isn't that useful anymore, because of the default deny everything policy of ipfw). This was on a SMP box with a Jan 30 cvsup, I'm currently downgrading it to an older 4.2-stable (dated 30 Dec 2000) Regards, Ruben -- ,-_ .------------------------------------------------------------. /() ) | Ruben van Staveren | Linux is for Microsoft Haters,|_o (__ ( | http://ruben.is.verweg.com | BSD is for Unix Lovers | #> =/ () `----------------------------+-------------------------------' 4 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message