From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jun 22 03:38:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id DAA03539 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 22 Jun 1996 03:38:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (palmer.demon.co.uk [158.152.50.150]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id DAA03512 for ; Sat, 22 Jun 1996 03:38:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palmer.demon.co.uk (sendmail/PALMER-2) with ESMTP id LAA18635; Sat, 22 Jun 1996 11:36:42 +0100 (BST) To: guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij) cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: systems hangs, reboots and panics after large find In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 22 Jun 1996 12:09:33 +0200." <199606221009.MAA04708@gvr.win.tue.nl> Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1996 11:36:41 +0100 Message-ID: <18633.835439801@palmer.demon.co.uk> Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Guido van Rooij wrote in message ID <199606221009.MAA04708@gvr.win.tue.nl>: > I'm experiencing strange hangs with a heavily used 2.0.5 machine. > The symptom is dat during a run of /etc/daily, the system gets > slower and slower and then sometimes reboots, sometimes hangs. > We also saw panics, (free vnode isn't). > I lately did a large find on a 2.0 machine and it rebooted. Because > /etc/daily also contains a few large finds, I am suspecting the > FS layer. Is anything known about a problem in there causing such > behaviour? There are several problems with the FS layer, but I'm more willing to bet you have a DOSFS filesystem mounted... news.cdrom.com (which used to run some mutant system about 2.0.5 time) had a 9 Gb FS which the then admin didn't think to take out of the security scans... so the news filesystem had expire AND a find running on it at the same time. That machine was rock stable. Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info