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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:6091 comp.os.386bsd.bugs:1629 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uknet!mcsun!dxcern!tifrvax.tifr.res.in!bhiksha From: bhiksha@tifrvax.tifr.res.in Subject: RE: NETBSD 0.9 SPONTANEOUSLY REBOOTS WHEN DOING A LOT OF NFS READS Message-ID: <21OCT93.07072268@tifrvax.tifr.res.in> Sender: news@dxcern.cern.ch (USENET News System) Organization: MIT PLASMA FUSION CENTER References: <2a471k$shn@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1993 07:07:22 GMT Lines: 31 In a previous article, buhrow@cats.ucsc.edu (Brian Buhrow) wrote: > > Hello fellow NetBSD people. I have a bug which manifests itself when >doing large reads from nfs mounted file systems. If you do a lot of fast >reading from a file on an nfs mounted file system, the netBSD system will >spontaneously reboot. I cannot figure out exactly what is going on, though >I believe that the syslog message saying: >hostname/netbsd: mb_map full >which appears anywhere from 3 seconds to three minutes before the reboot >might give a clue to the problem. >Note that it seems to happen only on large individual files, not on a lot >of reads from a set of different files. > > I'm using a netbsd-0.9a (current) kernel dated October 9, 1993. It >contains the nfs read-ahead patches. >This bug predates those patches. >The system is running on a 386DX/25 with 8MB of memory. > > Any suggestions, patches, or ways of tracking the problem further >would be most useful. >Please mail responses to: >buhrow@cats.ucsc.edu >as I do not have time to read news groups extensively. >-Brian I have had a similar thing happen on occasion when i read a lot of data from the DOS partition on the SAME disk (not NFS). Any idea why? bhiksha