From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 9 19:24:17 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A29A716A417 for ; Thu, 9 Nov 2006 19:24:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0571443D72 for ; Thu, 9 Nov 2006 19:24:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFA4C1A3C19; Thu, 9 Nov 2006 11:24:16 -0800 (PST) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id CFB2C51390; Thu, 9 Nov 2006 14:24:07 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2006 14:24:07 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway To: Zbigniew Szalbot Message-ID: <20061109192407.GA43267@xor.obsecurity.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="3V7upXqbjpZ4EhLz" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: periodic, short freezes X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2006 19:24:17 -0000 --3V7upXqbjpZ4EhLz Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 09:12:06AM +0100, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > Hello, >=20 > I am running FBSD 6-1 stable with custom kernel. Occasionally I experienc= e=20 > short freezes - that is the machine stops to respond for a few seconds an= d=20 > then happily starts to work again. >=20 > My general question is what log should I inspect or what debugging to tur= n=20 > on to have some more info on what really happens? It does seem to happen= =20 > under bigger load (something like over 1) but I am not really sure if tha= t=20 > is the cause. Yesterday it ran for three hours with an average load=20 > of over 2 and there was no freeze. >=20 > Many thanks in advance for guiding me in troubleshooting the issue. Is your system swapping? Monitor with top, swapinfo, etc. Kris --3V7upXqbjpZ4EhLz Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFU4BXWry0BWjoQKURAnDwAKDjTbE6jY6u9XWzuEBnZbsuoriY5QCgtTCj VVXU3FaAO/A68djyNPRmtUw= =RT6Q -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --3V7upXqbjpZ4EhLz--