Strange 670MP crash
2007-12-25 7:40:00
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Hardware: 670MP, 4.1.2, 1 IPI drive, 3 SCSI drives
Symptoms: Four crashes in two days, both times with the following messages,
repeated ad infinitum, with different numbers each time:
ipi0: missing interrupt: refnum 352
id000b: block 17805 (51018 abs)
write: missing interrupt - recovery in progress
ipi0: missing interrupt: refnum 4a9
id000b: block 12343 (49238 abs)
write: missing interrupt - recovery in progress
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I received 6-8 replies to this question, all with different suggestions.
CAUSE: In our case, the crashes were caused by a C program written by
a programming student. On a SPARC 1, the program simply exits
with "Out of Memory Error", but on the 670MP, the IPI disk died
(and brought the entire network down with it).
SOLUTION: Swap out the IPI disk controller for the latest rev
(this was free since our 670MP is on hardware maintenance).
Now, when I run the C program, it exits with "Out of Memory"
like it's supposed to.
Thanks to all who took the time to reply. I hope my solution
works for you!
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David Mostardi Phone: (510) 643-6071
Systems Administrator FAX: (510) 643-5348
Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Email: david@msri.org
1000 Centennial Drive, Berkeley CA 94720
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