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Date:      Thu, 4 Mar 2004 20:09:51 -0800 (PST)
From:      Don Lewis <truckman@FreeBSD.org>
To:        vladimir@math.uic.edu
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: debugging lockups
Message-ID:  <200403050409.i2549p7E005937@gw.catspoiler.org>
In-Reply-To: <20040304201917.GB27377@math.uic.edu>

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On  4 Mar, vladimir@math.uic.edu wrote:
> Following up on my previous post  from a couple of days ago with the
> same subject (unfortunately I don't have my original email, so this
> will probably start  a new thread).   A -CURRENT system (built on Mar 3,
> 2004) frequently locks up when typing "ps" or "w", in addition to when
> killing memory-intensive processes.   The system locks up hard, and I
> cannot break into the debugger from the console, although the necessary
> options are compiled into the kernel.

This is a known problem.  See the thread "sysctl spinning (was: Re: ps
Causes Hard Hang)".



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