garton@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Bradford Garton) (07/09/90)
Speaking of system panics, is there any way at all to increase the size of that tiny panic window? I've gotten one or two while banging hard on the disk, and trying to see the tracebacks (or even the full help menu) from that peephole on reality is insane. Is this something that has to wait until 2.0? Brad Garton Columbia University brad@woof.columbia.edu
dcarpent@sjuphil.uucp (D. Carpenter) (07/21/90)
Can anyone tell me what causes a "system panic"? I was working along happily in Framemaker, and all of a sudden a window pops up titled "System panic". This is a first for me, and a bit unnerving. I re-booted and all was fine, but I'd be interested to know what caused it. Has this happened to anyone else? Could Framemaker be the culprit? (I'm still using version 2.0. Frame Tech. says 2.0b has fixed some bugs that could cause system crashes, although I've never had this problem before). -- =============================================================== David Carpenter dcarpent@sjuphil.UUCP St. Joseph's University dcarpent@sjuphil.sju.edu Philadelphia, PA 19131 ST_JOSEPH@HVRFORD.BITNET
smithw@hamblin.math.byu.edu (William V. Smith) (10/16/90)
I left my cube running three Mathematica jobs last night and they used up about 287 MB of swap. One of them apparently finished after a few hours and then a system panic window came up. I wasn't at the console, but had logged in from home and noticed two defunct processes. I looked at the "messages" and found the following: Oct 15 18:21:29 mathnx lookupd[341]: netinfo sleeping: RPC: Timed out Oct 15 18:21:35 mathnx lookupd[341]: netinfo waking Oct 15 20:24:13 mathnx mach: zone "objects" empty. Oct 15 20:24:13 mathnx mach: panic: (Cpu 0) zalloc Oct 15 20:24:13 mathnx mach: Killing all processes . Oct 15 20:24:17 mathnx mach: . Oct 15 20:24:21 mathnx last message repeated 4 times I had plenty of disk space left, about 100 MB or so free. I couldn't find any reference to "zalloc" or zone "objects" empty etc. in the docs I have, so . . . what happened here? -Bill-