On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 03:41:48PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 01:06:37PM -0400, Vivek Khera wrote: > > > > On Oct 4, 2006, at 12:39 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > > >>> > > >>>The only thing I think was running at the time would be a large file > > >>>copy from a remote system to this one using rsync. > > >> > > >>As I understand, you got the panic. Then, you shall post the panic > > >>message. > > >>If you have core file, then running kgdb on the core may show > > >>required > > >>information. > > >>(it shall be on the console exactly before en > > >>and backtrace (using the bt command of ddb) of the paniced thread. > > > > > >YOu can also do 'show msgbuf' from DDB. > > > > > > > i ran kgdb on the vmcore file. since the dump was generated by > > calling doadump from DDB, the backtrace was showing the call stack of > > that. > > > > from what i read in the output from kgdb, it seems that something > > locked the kernel and we broke to debugger from the watchdog timeout > > (I enable software watchdog). > > Hmm, be careful with that - if you set the timeout too low (and note > that for some workloads O(minutes) may even be too low) then you'll > get a lot of false positives. >
Oh, yes. I've using this with success: watchdogd -t 3600 -e 'ls /tmp /dev > /dev/null; true' -s 60 - Peter > Kris > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) > > iD8DBQFFJA58Wry0BWjoQKURAr5dAKDf4YLcBJU9owRw6N1L3FcgJkvOOgCfRQkq > bd8+tGZVB28bkYBN6KL7iO0= > =B7Vl > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
