From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 27 13:13:25 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2111216A407 for ; Fri, 27 Oct 2006 13:13:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wmoran@collaborativefusion.com) Received: from mx00.pub.collaborativefusion.com (mx00.pub.collaborativefusion.com [206.210.89.199]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7183243DA4 for ; Fri, 27 Oct 2006 13:12:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wmoran@collaborativefusion.com) Received: from collaborativefusion.com (mx01.pub.collaborativefusion.com [206.210.89.201]) (TLS: TLSv1/SSLv3,256bits,AES256-SHA) by wingspan with esmtp; Fri, 27 Oct 2006 09:12:54 -0400 id 00056419.454205D6.00017B95 Received: from Internal Mail-Server (206.210.89.202) by mx01 (envelope-from wmoran@collaborativefusion.com) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 27 Oct 2006 09:06:35 -0400 Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 09:12:52 -0400 From: Bill Moran To: bram Message-Id: <20061027091252.5cf747b1.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> In-Reply-To: <4541B6AD.3090507@diomedia.be> References: <4541B6AD.3090507@diomedia.be> Organization: Collaborative Fusion X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.9 (GTK+ 2.10.6; i386-portbld-freebsd6.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RELENG 6.1/AMD64 system hangs when SMP enabled X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 13:13:25 -0000 In response to bram : > Hi all, > > I'm rather new to freebsd so forgive me if I am saying things that don't > make sense. > > I have a dual opteron server running freebsd 6.1/amd64 updated 4 weeks ago. > > Since I moved to 6 I've been having tho following problem. > > When I put heavy load on the server (python scripts that take 20 minutes > to complete) the server sometimes hangs. > > I can then not ping it anymore and it does not respond to anything (no > keyboard power button etc.). > Mostly there are no error messages or anything so I have no clue to what > the problem is. > One time it did give an error but I did not wrote it down, but as I > recall it was something like SMP spin lock timed out. > > It hangs every three weeks > > Please give me some info on how I can get it to give more info or how to > resolve this problem. I'm no expert, but this is probably where you'll need to start: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug-online-ddb.html -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc.