From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 15 23:43:39 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2383616A4CE; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 23:43:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.mcneil.com (rrcs-west-24-199-45-54.biz.rr.com [24.199.45.54]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01B4A43D48; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 23:43:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sean@mcneil.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.mcneil.com [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mcneil.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A76FFD25F; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 16:43:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.mcneil.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (server.mcneil.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 00631-06; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 16:43:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [24.199.45.54] (mcneil.com [24.199.45.54]) by mail.mcneil.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C20C7FD09C; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 16:43:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Sean McNeil To: Brian Fundakowski Feldman In-Reply-To: <20040715212031.GB1626@green.homeunix.org> References: <1089924060.1074.7.camel@server.mcneil.com> <20040715212031.GB1626@green.homeunix.org> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1089935015.2558.3.camel@server.mcneil.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 16:43:35 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at mcneil.com cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: consistent hard lockup with recent kernels X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 23:43:39 -0000 On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 14:20, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: > On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 01:41:00PM -0700, Sean McNeil wrote: > > I get a very repeatable hard freeze of the system when I use firefox and > > attempt to download a large iso image. I've been trying to get a livecd > > image from a gentoo.org mirror (needed for something else, I'm a FreeBSD > > fan, honest!!) ;) > > > > I suppose this is related to the preemption issues, but don't have > > anything to show for it except my dmegs. I can't access the system at > > all to see why it is happening. > > Can you run it in an X session on another host, and be at the console > (for DDB+KDB access)? Can you start it and switch to the console, for > same reason, before it locks up? I attempted the former, but apparantly the lockup is because of interaction with other processes. Perhaps involving surfing another web site as a download is in progress. I cannot try the X session on another host as yet, but I will. Switching to the console and not doing anything else stressful on the machine allowed for the download to complete without a lockup. All times it has locked up I was doing other things while the download was in progress. However, no lockup has occurred without the download happening. Sean