Re: Debugging Kernel/System Crashes, can anyone help??

2000-05-06 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 07:38 AM 5/6/00 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: On Thursday, 4 May 2000 at 17:00:35 -0500, Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote: At 11:40 AM 5/4/00 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: There's a separate issue about whether to build kernels with debug symbols by default. That takes a lot more space (30 MB as

Re: Debugging Kernel/System Crashes, can anyone help??

2000-05-05 Thread Howard Leadmon
A hah! Yes, I think I see what is happening. The kernel ioctl() system call is using a stack based char buffer to hold the temporary data, and this buffer is not aligned. Please try the following patch. -Matt

Re: Debugging Kernel/System Crashes, can anyone help??

2000-05-03 Thread Howard Leadmon
Well I actually have two prior crashes that I did save before I turned off the dumpsaves to avoid running out of drive space, and as I am by no means a gdb user if you could tell me what your looking for I'll be happy to fire up gdb and send you the info. Here is what I grabbed out of the

Debugging Kernel/System Crashes, can anyone help??

2000-05-03 Thread Howard Leadmon
Hello, I know I posted a few messages here in the past, but maybe someone who is good at tracking kernel problems can step up and lend a hand. I have a machine running FBSD 4.0-STABLE, and have been experiencing almost daily kernel panics or reboots on the machine. I have replaced ALL of

Re: Debugging Kernel/System Crashes, can anyone help??

2000-05-03 Thread Matthew Dillon
Judging by your original bug report, Howard, it seems likely that either the machine or the network the machine is sitting on is being attacked and the machine is running out of some resource (probably network mbufs). Increasing the NMBCLUSTERS any more will probably not help.