Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 02:18:56 -0500 (EST) From: Charles Sprickman <spork@inch.com> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, noc@inch.com Subject: Re: high load, nothing happening? (LONG) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001190213310.18965-100000@shell.inch.com> In-Reply-To: <20000118171034.A4871@dan.emsphone.com>
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On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Dan Nelson wrote: > The handbook instructions are for kernel-generated panics; for a manual > panic like yours, the stack is unimportant. The easiest way to see > which processes are active is to run this: > > (kgdb) source /usr/src/sys/modules/vinum/.gdbinit.kernel Interesting, what's this do? > (kgdb) ps > And look at the 'stat' column. Any processes with a stat of 1 or 2 are > in the 'runnable' queue, which is what loadav measures. There should > be 3 or so processes in that state. Did that, and every process had a stat of "3". > And in response to anyone saying "Why did you tell him to panic the > machine? Why not just have him run ps": I could, but with all those > apache processes lying around possibly forking children, I wanted a > static picture of the system that wouldn't change from email to email :) More importantly, this machine is just sitting here waiting to be put in production, so I'm more than willing to play around with it like this while I still can... Thanks for the ongoing help, I've never touched a debugger before, and this has been educational so far. I'm coming off a week or two of playing with NT machines, and it's nice to at least be able to gather some info about what the machine is doing with OS-supplied tools, which is something I found very difficult to do in NT GUI-land. Thanks, Charles > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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