From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 4 14:46:06 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 A0CA116A4CE; Thu, 4 Nov 2004 14:46:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: from electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU (electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.32.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F10A43D62; Thu, 4 Nov 2004 14:46:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU) Received: from electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU (kensmith@localhost [127.0.0.1]) iA4Ek5Io026410; Thu, 4 Nov 2004 09:46:05 -0500 (EST) Received: (from kensmith@localhost) by electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.12.10/8.12.9/Submit) id iA4Ek5R4026409; Thu, 4 Nov 2004 09:46:05 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 09:46:05 -0500 From: Ken Smith To: Michael Nottebrock Message-ID: <20041104144605.GF24440@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> References: <200411020143.34251.gte990t@mail.gatech.edu> <200411040329.21834.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> <4189CCB8.2050104@alexdupre.com> <200411041534.30965.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200411041534.30965.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org cc: re@freebsd.org cc: Ken Smith Subject: Re: [FreeBSD 5.3-RC2] Processes STILL hanging in unkillable state 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, 04 Nov 2004 14:46:06 -0000 On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 03:34:26PM +0100, Michael Nottebrock wrote: > On Thursday, 4. November 2004 07:31, Alex Dupre wrote: > > Michael Nottebrock wrote: > > > Could all people who are seeing this please post their kernel > > > configurations, sysctl.conf and perhaps some system details (platform, > > > UP/MP), too. > > Looking at all of these, I fail to see anything "special" that all these > machines have in common - looks like there's a full range from tuned > configurations with eyebrowraisers like PREEMPTION to almost-unmodified > GENERIC and pretty different hardware, too. :( > > So if anybody spots something interesting here after all, or thinks Marc > Ramirez backtraces / debug sessions reveal anything about the bug, please > take over... > In particular if you manage to wedge processes in an unkillable state the output of "ps -o f -l" might be useful. I'd like to see all of the flags set for a process that gets wedged. -- Ken Smith - From there to here, from here to | kensmith@cse.buffalo.edu there, funny things are everywhere. | - Theodore Geisel |