Dirty blocks?

[dinoteo]

Hi all,

Can anyone advise me on what is the cause of the error message below?

Aug 14 19:29:29 No cache. Number of dirty blocks = 4294967040. 000000681b2b3500000000000000000000000000000000000000000
00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

Thanks a million.

 

[daFranze]

in which context did you get this message in which logfile?

Best Regards, Franz
--
Solaris System Manager from Munich, Germany
I used to work for Sun Microsystems Support (EMEA) for 5 years in the domain of the OS, Backup and Storage

 

[dinoteo]

From the messages file. I enclosed the extract below.

Aug 14 19:29:29 dptelog: [ID 103684 daemon.notice] Drive locking started at Sun Aug 14 19:27:52 2005.
Aug 14 19:29:29 last message repeated 2 times
Aug 14 19:29:29 dptelog: [ID 103708 daemon.notice] Drive locking started at Sun Aug 14 19:27:58 2005.
Aug 14 19:29:29 last message repeated 1 time
Aug 14 19:29:29 dptelog: [ID 633460 daemon.notice] Drive locking stopped at Sun Aug 14 19:27:58 2005.
Aug 14 19:29:29 dptelog: [ID 402400 daemon.notice] Sun Aug 14 19:27:58 2005
Aug 14 19:29:29 No cache. Number of dirty blocks = 4294967040. 000000681b2b350000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
Aug 14 19:29:29 dptelog: [ID 682399 daemon.notice] Global Cache State Change. Write Back => Write Through at Sun Aug 14 19:28:21 2005

 

[daFranze]

I could not find an exact match on sunsolve.sun.* but I suggest to
a) check the patches for the dptelog, which is part of SRC/P and install/update the patches
b) open a call at Sun to doublecheck the message

Best Regards, Franz
--
Solaris System Manager from Munich, Germany
I used to work for Sun Microsystems Support (EMEA) for 5 years in the domain of the OS, Backup and Storage