Hello there.

I played a bit with nntpcached on a NetBSD-1.4/alpha. Hardware is a multia133mhz
with 2 identical SCSI drives attached to it in a external case. this morning the
machine was dead and following were the last entries in the messages file:

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Jul 27 11:25:06 <hostname> /netbsd: sd0(ncr0:0:0): 10.0 MB/s (100 ns, offset 8)
Jul 27 11:25:06 <hostname> /netbsd: uid 0 on /: out of inodes
Jul 27 11:25:06 <hostname> /netbsd: sd1(ncr0:1:0): 10.0 MB/s (100 ns, offset 8)
Jul 27 11:25:06 <hostname> /netbsd: ncr0:1: ERROR (a0:0) (0-0-0) (8/13) @ (script 5
94:40b00594).
Jul 27 11:25:06 <hostname> /netbsd: ncr0: script cmd = 80000000
Jul 27 11:25:06 <hostname> /netbsd: ncr0: regdump: da 00 00 13 47 08 01 1f 35 08 00
 00 80 00 0f 02.
Jul 27 11:25:06 <hostname> /netbsd: ncr0: restart (fatal error).
Jul 27 11:25:06 <hostname> /netbsd: sd0(ncr0:0:0): 10.0 MB/s (100 ns, offset 8)
Jul 27 11:25:06 <hostname> /netbsd: sd1(ncr0:1:0): 10.0 MB/s (100 ns, offset 8)
Jul 27 11:25:06 <hostname> /netbsd: uid 0 on /var: out of inodes
Jul 27 11:25:06 <hostname> /netbsd: uid 20003 on /var: file system full
Jul 27 11:25:07 <hostname> last message repeated 9 times
Jul 27 11:25:07 <hostname> /netbsd: uid 0 on /var: out of inodes
Jul 27 11:25:07 <hostname> /netbsd: uid 20003 on /var: file system full
Jul 27 11:25:07 <hostname> last message repeated 12 times
Jul 27 11:25:07 <hostname> /netbsd: uid 0 on /var: out of inodes
Jul 27 11:25:07 <hostname> /netbsd: uid 20003 on /var: file system full
Jul 27 11:25:07 <hostname> last message repeated 9 times
Jul 27 11:25:07 <hostname> /netbsd: uid 0 on /var: out of inodes
Jul 27 11:25:08 <hostname> /netbsd: uid 20003 on /var: file system full
Jul 27 11:25:08 <hostname> last message repeated 12 times
Jul 27 11:25:08 <hostname> /netbsd: panic: pmap_emulate_reference(0xfffffc000261313
0, 0xfffffe000412c000, 0, 1): pa 0x0 not managed
Jul 27 11:25:08 <hostname> /netbsd: syncing disks... 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 
2 2 2 2 2 giving up
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Could someone enlighten me what exactly the ncr0:1: ERROR (a0:0) means?? Is it a
hardware problem?? (the machine was running fine since i installed it).
pid 20003 was nntpcached. "df -i" gave me the result that there were plenty of
inodes on ALL filesystems available. Or is it a kernel problem with not enough
free vnodes?

<hostname># sysctl kern.maxvnodes
kern.maxvnodes = 778

thanks,
cjm

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