Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2006 17:09:26 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Zbigniew Szalbot <zbyszek@szalbot.homedns.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: periodic, short freezes Message-ID: <20061109220926.GA45759@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.64.0611092255160.39407@192.168.11.51> References: <Pine.BSF.4.64.0611090907440.9485@192.168.11.51> <20061109192407.GA43267@xor.obsecurity.org> <Pine.BSF.4.64.0611092255160.39407@192.168.11.51>
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--6c2NcOVqGQ03X4Wi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 10:56:53PM +0100, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > Hello, >=20 > On Thu, 9 Nov 2006, Kris Kennaway wrote: >=20 > >Is your system swapping? Monitor with top, swapinfo, etc. >=20 > I will take a more careful look in the course of next few days. The=20 > problem is that I access this box only via tty so when it does freeze I= =20 > have no way to determine what really happens. How do you know the entire system is freezing instead of just the tty? :) If you have e.g. heavy disk write activity then the syncer will grab Giant while flushing periodically and delay other things that require Giant, like serial terminals. Kris --6c2NcOVqGQ03X4Wi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFU6cWWry0BWjoQKURAkUxAKDjD6V6+PPnO1E4flyRGBOEHJqHMQCgr90P b7S7c1DR8fqeHpKllO11ipM= =ci2/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --6c2NcOVqGQ03X4Wi--
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