From owner-freebsd-stable Mon May 22 0:26:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from bsf.alcatel.fr (laposte.bsf.alcatel.fr [193.104.128.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC7D637B54A for ; Mon, 22 May 2000 00:26:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sr@sxb.bsf.alcatel.fr) Received: from mail (sikkim.sxb.bsf.alcatel.fr [155.132.20.1]) by bsf.alcatel.fr (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA07502; Mon, 22 May 2000 09:33:44 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from piano by mail (8.8.8+Sun/ABS1.4) id JAA03423; Mon, 22 May 2000 09:25:31 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from charles by piano (8.8.8+Sun/ABS1.5) id JAA10889; Mon, 22 May 2000 09:25:30 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from sxb.bsf.alcatel.fr by charles (8.8.8+Sun/ABS1.5) id JAA18683; Mon, 22 May 2000 09:25:28 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <3928E0E6.FEE60088@sxb.bsf.alcatel.fr> Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 09:25:26 +0200 From: Sebastien ROCHE X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group Cc: Chris Richards , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fall down, go BOOM References: <200005211704.e4LH4Lj00823@cwsys.cwsent.com> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------FFE3C69CBBFCE38E9E3124CE" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --------------FFE3C69CBBFCE38E9E3124CE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Couldn't it be due to a lack of available processes (the limit is related to the maximum users allowed) ? Seb Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote: > In message <20000520020410.A306@student-00cdr.williams.edu>, Chris > Richards wri > tes: > > Minutes ago, I heard a sudden, brief surge in disk activity, and then > > the machine froze. (No switching consoles, even, so if there was a > > helpful message from the kernel I couldn't see it.) The only thing I > > was doing was compiling a particular SML program, which I've done > > plenty of times before. Relevant logs are appended. Does this look > > like an out-of-memory situation? Can OOM cause processes to get a > > SIGILL? > [messages edited] > > Looks like you might have a hardware problem -- CPU, cache, or memory. > > Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 > Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 > Team Leader, Sun/DEC Team Internet: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca > Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA > Province of BC > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- Sebastien ROCHE , Software Engineer ATLINKS 1 , rte Albert Schweitzer 67408 ILLKIRCH CEDEX Tel: 03 90 67 67 90 , poste 74042 Email : sr@sxb.bsf.alcatel.fr --------------FFE3C69CBBFCE38E9E3124CE Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit  
Couldn't it be due to a lack of available processes (the limit is related to the maximum users allowed) ?

Seb
 
 

Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote:

In message <20000520020410.A306@student-00cdr.williams.edu>, Chris
Richards wri
tes:
> Minutes ago, I heard a sudden, brief surge in disk activity, and then
> the machine froze.  (No switching consoles, even, so if there was a
> helpful message from the kernel I couldn't see it.)  The only thing I
> was doing was compiling a particular SML program, which I've done
> plenty of times before.  Relevant logs are appended.  Does this look
> like an out-of-memory situation?  Can OOM cause processes to get a
> SIGILL?
[messages edited]

Looks like you might have a hardware problem -- CPU, cache, or memory.

Regards,                       Phone:  (250)387-8437
Cy Schubert                      Fax:  (250)387-5766
Team Leader, Sun/DEC Team   Internet:  Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca
Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA
Province of BC

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