Hi,
Yesterday I asked :
Today our Alpha Server crashed *again*. But , fortunately this time it
gave a reason(like?) message at /var/adm/crash like ;
_cpu: 30
_system_string: 0xfffffc0000604cc8 = "DEC3000 - M500"
_ncpus: 1
_avail_cpus: 1
_partial_dump: 1
_physmem(MBytes): 128
_panic_string: 0xfffffc00005ff0a0 = "kernel memory fault"
_preserved_message_buffer_begin:
struct {
msg_magic = 0x63061
msg_bufx = 0x755
msg_bufr = 0x50f
msg_bufc = "task table is full
<3>task table is full
<3>task table is full
<3>task table is full
<3>task table is full
...
I think this is the reason. Do you have any idea how to manage this ?
Whats optimum values for task table value and where from can I change it ?
Sincerely.
murat.
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Thanx to :
Jon Buchanan <Jonathan.Buchanan_at_ska.com>
Mr. Dustin Fu <xxfdh_at_omega.uta.edu>
Martin Moore <martin_at_jerry.alf.dec.com>
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Jon Buchanan <Jonathan.Buchanan_at_ska.com> said :
Have you tried increasing maxusers in the kernel config file and
rebuilding the kernel?
See System Administration manual for more details.
>> I don't know whether the reason is that but I checked maxusers in the
>> /vmunix and it was 32 which is supposed to be 64. A few days ago I
>> recompiled the kernel, somehow it became 32 since then. I increased it
>> to 64 now. It seems to be working now. But :
Martin Moore <martin_at_jerry.alf.dec.com> also said :
The crash may or may not have been caused by task table full; actually, I
doubt it was, since this usually won't cause a crash. It just happened to
be occurring at the same time at the crash, so it was in the message buffer
at the time.
To fix the task table full, increase your value for maxusers and rebuild the
kernel.
To get more help on the crash, try posting the stack trace from the crash
(which is also in the crash-data.n file.)
>> I put the crash-data file to : http://bornova.ege.edu.tr/~balci/crash.html
>> We have a bit slow link but I think you may look at it.
>> Thanx for all.
>> murat.
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Murat Balci UNIX sys. Admin
s-mail : Ege Universitesi B.A.U.M - Bornova, IZMIR, TURKIYE.
e-mail : balci_at_bornova.ege.edu.tr Phone :+(90)(232)3881080-253
Received on Tue Mar 12 1996 - 13:52:26 NZDT