From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 17 21:46:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA22542 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 17 Jul 1996 21:46:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scooter.quickweb.com (scooter.quickweb.com [199.212.134.8]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA22528 for ; Wed, 17 Jul 1996 21:46:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (mark@localhost) by scooter.quickweb.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id AAA00551 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 00:46:43 -0400 Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 00:46:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Mark Mayo To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: crash on 2.1R Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi all. I experienced a crash on a 2.1R system today - my first ever, and was wondering what the cause was. I'm hoping someone can help me out here :-) The machine is a 486 with 24MB RAM, and a 1.7GB EIDE hard drive. The crash "appears" to have occured when I vi'ed a 4MB file (log from the web server). I have two theories: 1.) VM bug. It screwed up on the swap and crashed out (could be hardware or the OS) 2.) vi killed it! I think maybe the vi.recover backup filled up /var?? Is that how vi does it's backup thing? Here's the file system info: mark:{31}/home/mark % df Filesystem 512-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/wd0a 64508 27332 32012 46% / /dev/wd0s1f 3039372 1114904 1681316 40% /usr /dev/wd0s1e 60412 10344 45232 19% /var procfs 8 8 0 100% /proc I picked the standard 'auto-config' sizes for the disk slices when I setup the machine. Quite frankly, I'm puzzled. Do others eperience crashes like this at all? I've had such good luck with FreeBSD so far that I think it must have been a hardware bard that caused the crash. Any ideas appreciated. TIA, -Mark Oh yeah, the last command shows a "crash" then a "reboot". ------------------------------------------- | Mark Mayo mark@quickweb.com | | C-Soft www.quickweb.com | ------------------------------------------- "To iterate is human, to recurse divine." - L. Peter Deutsch