From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 18 14:47: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [216.240.41.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEFB614E6D for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 14:47:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id OAA27487; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 14:47:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 14:47:01 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <200001182247.OAA27487@apollo.backplane.com> To: spork Cc: Dan Nelson , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, noc@inch.com Subject: Re: high load, nothing happening? (LONG) References: Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :> CTRL-ALT-ESC, and at the prompt type in 'panic'. You'll need DDB :> compiled into the kernel, and crashdumps enabled. : :By now, you should know my next question... What am I looking at? I :built a kernel with "config -g" and the debugger option and made it panic :while sitting at a load of 3.0... Following the handbook instructions, I :see this: A backtrace is not likely to be useful, but a 'ps' (from DDB) may be. It might also be useful to leave 'systat -vm 1' and 'vmstat 1' running to see if the system is doing any paging or other significant work at the time of the high load. -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message