topic Re: syslog growing with vmunix messages in Operating System - HP-UX

syslog growing with vmunix messages

pkumar97 — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 07:29:27 GMT

Dear Team,
Our Syslog daemon was down on both our production servers for a long while: when I restarted the daemon on both servers we are getting alert like and the syslog is growing fast. Please have a look on this as soon as possible.

Feb 16 11:02:48 aagcdb vmunix: function == 0x80278, arg == 0x41A81400, ticks == 0xD77853AA, flags == 0x0
Feb 16 11:02:48 aagcdb vmunix: function == 0x80278, arg == 0x41AB8C00, ticks == 0xD77853AA, flags == 0x0
Feb 16 11:02:48 aagcdb vmunix: function == 0x80278, arg == 0x41A81400, ticks == 0xD77853A9, flags == 0x0
Feb 16 11:02:48 aagcdb vmunix: function == 0x80278, arg == 0x41AB8C00, ticks == 0xD77853A9, flags == 0x0
Feb 16 11:02:48 aagcdb vmunix: function == 0x80278, arg == 0x41A81400, ticks == 0xD77853A8, flags == 0x0
Feb 16 11:02:48 aagcdb vmunix: function == 0x80278, arg == 0x41AB8C00, ticks == 0xD77853A8, flags == 0x0
Feb 16 11:02:48 aagcdb vmunix: function == 0x80278, arg == 0x41A81400, ticks == 0xD77853A7, flags == 0x0
Feb 16 11:02:48 aagcdb vmunix: function == 0x80278, arg == 0x41AB8C00, ticks == 0xD77853A7, flags == 0x0
Feb 16 11:02:48 aagcdb vmunix: function == 0x80278, arg == 0x41A81400, ticks == 0xD77853A6, flags == 0x0
Feb 16 11:02:48 aagcdb vmunix: function == 0x80278, arg == 0x41AB8C00, ticks == 0xD77853A6, flags == 0x0
Feb 16 11:02:48 aagcdb vmunix: function == 0x80278, arg == 0x41A81400, ticks == 0xD77853A5, flags == 0x0
Feb 16 11:02:48 aagcdb vmunix: function == 0x80278, arg == 0x41AB8C00, ticks == 0xD77853A5, flags == 0x0
Feb 16 11:02:48 aagcdb vmunix: function == 0x80278, arg == 0x41A81400, ticks == 0xD77853A4, flags == 0x0
Feb 16 11:02:48 aagcdb vmunix: function == 0x80278, arg == 0x41AB8C00, ticks == 0xD77853A4, flags == 0x0
Feb 16 11:02:48 aagcdb vmunix: function == 0x80278, arg == 0x41A81400, ticks == 0xD77853A3, flags == 0x0
Feb 16 11:02:48 aagcdb vmunix: function == 0x80278, arg == 0x41AB8C00, ticks == 0xD77853A3, flags == 0x0
Feb 16 11:02:48 aagcdb vmunix: function == 0x80278, arg == 0x41A81400, ticks == 0xD77853A2, flags == 0x0
Feb 16 11:02:48 aagcdb vmunix: function == 0x80278, arg == 0x41AB8C00, ticks == 0xD77853A2, flags == 0x0
Feb 16 11:02:48 aagcdb vmunix: function == 0x80278, arg == 0x41A81400, ticks == 0xD77853A1, flags == 0x0
Feb 16 11:02:48 aagcdb vmunix: function == 0x80278, arg == 0x41AB8C00, ticks == 0xD77853A1, flags == 0x0

Re: syslog growing with vmunix messages

Dennis Handly — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 07:45:23 GMT

It seems your machine has been up too long and you need to update the firmware:
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1287919
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1167624

Re: syslog growing with vmunix messages

Avinash20 — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 07:50:48 GMT

Refer to

http://forums13.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?admit=109447627+1234770618894+28353475&threadId=1167624

Re: syslog growing with vmunix messages

Avinash20 — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 12:28:33 GMT

=> Reports the same errors as that in the dmesg. The syslog is getting filled up.

=> Here the function reported is 0x80278.

# echo "0x80278/i" |adb /stand/vmunix /dev/kmem

If the output is mpt like example:
mpt_os_callback:
mpt_os_callback: STD r2,-16(r30)

This function belongs to the mpt driver, and you need to update the MPT drivers as suggested

Re: syslog growing with vmunix messages

pkumar97 — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 12:34:58 GMT

i logged the case with hp , as per hp they are also suggesting to update the same . Thanks dear team ..

Re: syslog growing with vmunix messages

Avinash20 — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 17:26:02 GMT

Good that you got the solution

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