From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jan 10 5:42:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from relativity.student.utwente.nl (wit389306.student.utwente.nl [130.89.234.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7EB315270 for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 05:38:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from djb@Wit389306.student.utwente.nl) Received: by relativity.student.utwente.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 364A61DA7; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 14:38:11 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 14:38:11 +0100 From: "Dave J. Boers" To: Christian Carstensen Cc: Joao Pedras , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freezing... Message-ID: <20000110143811.B796@relativity.student.utwente.nl> Reply-To: djb@relativity.student.utwente.nl References: <200001101150.LAA35188@godfather.webvolution.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from cc@devcon.net on Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 03:35:47PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 03:35:47PM +0100, Christian Carstensen wrote: > this is funny: > the system operates well, even when on heavy load (especially disk load), > until i want a little more 8). to become more precisely, a cvs checkout or > make world is no problem, if - and that's really interesting - nothing > else requests the system's attention. i've had some successfully reproducable > crashes when generating much i/o usage (cvs, buildworld), which in fact > caused no problem, and then simply starting pine. at the moment, pine > opened the mail folder, all my noisy hard disks stopped and it was > perfectly quiet apart from cpu fans. That sounds exactly like the very dead state I found my system in when it hang (I only have one occurence, so far, but my system isn't under very heavy load lately). Make -j 9 buildworld completes fine. The hang seems to have occured during a simple 20 Mb transfer of email data from my ide to my scsi disk (which is a very short but i/o intensive operation). There might have been an incoming email at the same time. I will try an idiotic buildworld -j 30 this evening just to see wether I can hang the system reproducibly. Have to go now, however. Regards, Dave Boers. -- Fatal error: replace user and try again. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message