On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 10:20, David Malone wrote: > On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 09:08:18AM -0500, Sven Willenberger wrote: > > Where should I begin to better diagnose what exactly is going on here? > > I can suggest two ways. The first is to record the output of "vmstat > -m" every 5 minutes from when the machine boots until it dies. If > something is consuming all your kernel memory, this may tell us > what subsystem it is. I will get that started on one of the boxes ASAP. > Another possibility is to add the DDB and DDB_UNATTENDED options > to your kernel and record the backtraces when the machine reboots. > Do I need to define dumpdev in rc.conf as well? Also, after the machine reboots after the crash, I can access the kernel dump with DDB by dropping to debug mode? (via the sysctl or keyboard per the handbook and assuming the DDB_UNATTENDED preserves the information upon reboot into multi-user) SvenReceived on Tue Mar 16 2004 - 07:01:16 UTC
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