Crash under disk writes (vinum?)

Greg 'groggy' Lehey grog at FreeBSD.org
Thu Oct 9 18:17:27 PDT 2003


On Thursday,  9 October 2003 at 13:28:48 +0100, Lewis Thompson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm running 5.1-RELEASE (latest patch version) on a machine with a
> couple of disks set up in a concatenated vinum-type config.
>
>   Periodically if I do some ``heavy'' writes to the concatenated disk it
> causes the system to panic and reboot.  I'm not sure it's because of
> vinum, but my guess is that it is -- on the same two disks is a mirrored
> volume which has no write problems.
>
>   My questions are first) has anybody else heard of this?

That's impossible to answer.

> Any solutions or ideas? and secondly) how can I effectively go about
> debugging this?

Well, you could start with
http://www.vinumvm.org/vinum/how-to-debug.html.

Greg
--
When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients.
If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients.
For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html
See complete headers for address and phone numbers.
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 187 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/attachments/20031010/cd65284a/attachment.bin


More information about the freebsd-questions mailing list