Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2006 18:55:16 -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: <20061109235515.GA46945@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.64.0611092327310.41783@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> <20061109220926.GA45759@xor.obsecurity.org> <Pine.BSF.4.64.0611092327310.41783@192.168.11.51>
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--x+6KMIRAuhnl3hBn Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 11:29:51PM +0100, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > Hello, >=20 > On Thu, 9 Nov 2006, Kris Kennaway wrote: >=20 > >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. >=20 > I do not think that's the case. I have another box that works as a mail= =20 > relay server that passes messages for exim under FBSD. Now when the freez= e=20 > occurs, I check the relay server and it cannot connect to the FBSD box=20 > (both are on the same lan). That's why I think it is a general box freeze= =20 > and not just a tty problem. OK, you'll need to do some more diagnosis along the lines of my previous em= ail then. Kris --x+6KMIRAuhnl3hBn Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFU7/jWry0BWjoQKURAlCpAKCQqQ9GXOvadVty5uU60ugROJhWjQCdF9g7 R0jd+bvh2LwgWDApEqESuoU= =JkJ7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --x+6KMIRAuhnl3hBn--
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