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Date:      Mon, 16 May 2016 10:58:19 -0400
From:      Allan Jude <allanjude@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-jail@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Unresponsive jails issues
Message-ID:  <5739E00B.7090100@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <6beab349-73bb-7159-cd81-443e115b687a@gjunka.com>
References:  <6beab349-73bb-7159-cd81-443e115b687a@gjunka.com>

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On 2016-05-16 08:55, Grzegorz Junka wrote:
> I have a server running 13 jails for various system services. Recently I
> added two jails to run simple go applications for testing. They open a
> network socket and nginx, which is in another jail, and which round
> robin balances requests to them. I mention that because it may be
> related, however not necessarily because it was happening earlier.
> 
> The problem is that every 2-3 days jails in my servers stop responding.
> "jexec jailname tcsh" hangs forever, "service jail stop jailname" hangs
> forever as well. "top" doesn't show anything suspicious. I can login
> through SSH to the main server fine. I don't login to jails through SSH
> so I can't check but it seems that when that happens they stop
> responding because the services that are running in them stop too (e.g.
> web server, imap, ...). I tried to "kill -9" the "jexec" process that
> hangs but that doesn't work.
> 
> My first question is what evidence should I gather when that happens so
> that I can investigate the issue later on after the server is restarted?
> 
> And the second question, any idea why that might be happening in the
> first place?
> 
> I am running FreeBSD 10.3 AMD64 updated from 10.2 a couple of weeks ago.
> 
> Grzegorz
> 
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When you issue the jexec and it hangs, try pressing 'control+t' to see
what the waitchan is. Along with what Bjoern said, using procstat -k
<pid> to examine other processes etc.

-- 
Allan Jude



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