From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 23 10: 6:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from frmug.org (frmug-gw.frmug.org [193.56.58.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BEB114EB0 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 10:06:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from roberto@keltia.freenix.fr) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by frmug.org (8.9.1/frmug-2.3/nospam) with UUCP id TAA25625 for FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:05:59 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from roberto@keltia.freenix.fr) Received: by keltia.freenix.fr (Postfix, from userid 101) id 938EF87B6; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 08:00:10 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 08:00:10 +0100 From: Ollivier Robert To: FreeBSD current users Subject: Re: Help needed with hangs associated with vfs locking Message-ID: <19990323080010.A2391@keltia.freenix.fr> Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD current users References: <19990323170713.H442@lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <19990323170713.H442@lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Tue, Mar 23, 1999 at 05:07:13PM +1030 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT/ELF ctm#5130 AMD-K6 MMX @ 200 MHz Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG According to Greg Lehey: > perform this kind of locking). I currently suspect that vinum acts as > a catalyst by issuing disk multiple I/O requests in a very short space > of time. I got two hanging processes too yesterday. rnews was unbatching news and I had a grep on my news log. syslogd was locked in "inode" as was "grep". I had to reboot. I don't have more data sorry, I don't have a serial console yet. > pid proc addr uid ppid pgrp flag wchan stat comm wchan > 65139 f3f6bd00 f3f6c000 0 0 556 004006 3 ld inode f0bb3e00 My current is unfortunately a bit old (see below). -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 4.0-CURRENT #70: Sat Feb 27 09:43:08 CET 1999 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message