From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 21 20:39:38 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2BDB1065678 for ; Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:39:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from weldon@excelsus.com) Received: from mx0.excelsus.net (emmett.excelsus.com [74.93.113.252]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 395B68FC0C for ; Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:39:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from weldon@excelsus.com) Received: (qmail 2844 invoked by uid 89); 21 Aug 2008 20:39:35 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.excelsus.com with SMTP; 21 Aug 2008 20:39:35 -0000 Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:39:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Weldon S Godfrey 3 To: Jeremy Chadwick In-Reply-To: <20080821203602.GA22354@eos.sc1.parodius.com> Message-ID: <20080821163736.X76650@emmett.excelsus.com> References: <20080806101621.H24586@emmett.excelsus.com> <20080814091337.Y94482@emmett.excelsus.com> <20080821153107.W76650@emmett.excelsus.com> <20080821194742.GA19362@eos.sc1.parodius.com> <20080821155118.C76650@emmett.excelsus.com> <20080821203602.GA22354@eos.sc1.parodius.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS-NFS kernel panic under load X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:39:38 -0000 Thank would make sense, since panic dumps (I stupidly thought it already panic). I'll repeat tomorrow and do that. If anyone wants me to do anything else during this process, let me know. thanks! Weldon If memory serves me right, sometime around 1:36pm, Jeremy Chadwick told me: > On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 03:55:09PM -0400, Weldon S Godfrey 3 wrote: >> To be hostest, I told it to reboot. Sorry, I am not familiar with the >> debugger and I didn't see (but I often overlook) anything to would >> initiate a savecore when I typed help. (although I could have tried go, >> next, or whatever command would force it to step ahead, I didn't try >> that) If you know the command, I can repeat the test tomorrow and type >> the right thing. I do have cores from the crashes with 7.0. > > First, please do not remove the mailing list from the CC list; I've > re-added it. People need to know what you've said. :-) > > If my memory serves me correctly, the problem is that you typed "reboot" > and not "panic". I think this causes the machine to simply reboot > without dumping memory contents to swap, thus savecore won't find any > panic image in swap when the machine restarts. > > Others should be able to help you through using the kernel debugger. >