From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 23 13:25:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3D7114D5E for ; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 13:25:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id HAA23790; Wed, 24 Mar 1999 07:55:00 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id HAA66991; Wed, 24 Mar 1999 07:54:57 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19990324075457.A425@lemis.com> Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 07:54:57 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Ollivier Robert , FreeBSD current users Subject: Re: Help needed with hangs associated with vfs locking References: <19990323170713.H442@lemis.com> <19990323080010.A2391@keltia.freenix.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <19990323080010.A2391@keltia.freenix.fr>; from Ollivier Robert on Tue, Mar 23, 1999 at 08:00:10AM +0100 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, 23 March 1999 at 8:00:10 +0100, Ollivier Robert wrote: > 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. If you can get a dump and let me look at it, it would help. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message