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Date:      Thu, 9 Nov 2006 14:24:07 -0500
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Zbigniew Szalbot <zbyszek@szalbot.homedns.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: periodic, short freezes
Message-ID:  <20061109192407.GA43267@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.64.0611090907440.9485@192.168.11.51>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.64.0611090907440.9485@192.168.11.51>

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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

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