From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Aug 31 13: 9:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from erlenstar.demon.co.uk (erlenstar.demon.co.uk [194.222.144.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D40A6153C3 for ; Tue, 31 Aug 1999 13:09:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrew@erlenstar.demon.co.uk) Received: (from andrew@localhost) by erlenstar.demon.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA15416; Tue, 31 Aug 1999 21:08:40 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from andrew) To: The Hermit Hacker Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: INNd sticks in "vmopar" state References: From: Andrew Gierth In-Reply-To: The Hermit Hacker's message of "Wed, 25 Aug 1999 09:16:36 -0300 (ADT)" X-Mayan-Date: Long count = 12.19.6.8.17; tzolkin = 3 Caban; haab = 5 Mol X-Pgp-0x0E9FFBE9: 87 25 7F 14 41 24 B3 51 E0 19 8B DE 49 74 0C 29 X-Attribution: AG Date: 31 Aug 1999 21:08:39 +0100 Message-ID: <87r9kjhfw8.fsf@erlenstar.demon.co.uk> Lines: 33 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 20.2 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "The" == The Hermit Hacker writes: >> My small news server repeatedly hangs with innd in "vmpfw", with >> sometimes another process (e.g. innfeed) hung in "vmopar". Requires a >> fairly aggressive reboot to fix (any attempt to unmount the news spool >> filesystem hangs too). >> >> This is with FreeBSD-stable as of about June, with local disks and INN >> 2.2-stable (with every mmap option I could find turned off). Moving to >> FreeBSD-current isn't really an option. The> This may not be related, but... The> When Matt and I investigated my problem with 3.2-STABLE & The> INN-CURRENT (2.3 wannabe), we narrowed down the problem to a VM The> fragmentation problem in pre-4.x kernels. Basically, I ran The> 'vmstat -m' out of cron every 10 minutes, watching for the 'VM The> pgdata' values closely: The> VM pgdata 55 16K 211K128695K 73 0 0 128,256,512,2K,256K The> Basically, once the '211K' value reached the '128695K' value, The> you were hosed. This turns out to be unrelated to my problem. VM pgdata 385 72K 131K 10291K 1522 0 0 128,256,512,1K,2K,4K,16K,32K # ps axl | grep vmpfw 8 287 1 0 -22 0 16148 5500 vmpfw Ds ?? 242:58.57 /news-spool/ -- Andrew. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message