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- > Hi, recently I started getting kernel panics when doin ps -ux.
- > It happended threee times quite randomly.
- > I'm using vmunix644 the only change is that I compiled it without
- > support for scsi devices at addresses 0, 1, 2, 3 and 4, and I patched
- > it with the changes for gdb that were posted here a couple of days
- > ago. And I set transfer to non syncronous for my drives at address 5
- > and 6. I also installed the new binaries.
- > the crashes always happended when when /tmp was about half full,
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- > screen was running and term was running, in fact I used kermit to log
- > out of the remote machine and then wanted to kill term, so I typed
- > ps -ux to find the process number, but ps just responded with a panic,
- > giving me a table of the registers and some other info, which I wrote
- > down once (if it is of any help).
- > Unfortunateley I couldn't reproduce the error on purpose, it just
- > happens every now and then, 2 times yesterday and once last week.
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- If you are using mfs, which uses swap, and have enough processes
- running to have your swap 1/2 full, you may have run out of space in
- your swap partition. Try increasing swap, using less /tmp, or moving
- /tmp to a ufs partition.
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- Eduardo Horvath eeh@btr.com
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