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Date:      Sun, 24 Feb 2002 13:51:52 -0500 (EST)
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: crashes on 4.5-RELEASE
Message-ID:  <15481.13896.908803.910656@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <E16f076-0000Hd-00@rip.psg.com>
References:  <E16f076-0000Hd-00@rip.psg.com>

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Randy Bush writes:
 > just to add to the thread
 > 
 > desktop
 > asus cur-dls
 > scsi drives
 > xfree 4.1.0
 > 
 > occasional reboots.  but will lock up the scsi system in a day or three.
 > what i mean by lock up scsi is
 >   o screen is still alive, i can switch desktops, windows, ...
 >   o cursor movement is molasses
 >   o can type into any xterm
 >   o xterms to other hosts act normally
 >   o xterm to local host echo etc, but lock up if the command accesses
 >     disk

Can you monitor the size of your FFS node malloc pool?  Eg:

#!/bin/csh 

while 1
      vmstat -m | fgrep FFS | fgrep -v NFS 
      sleep 60
end

You should see something like:

     FFS node 10398  5199K   5199K 79618K    16183    0     0  512
     FFS node 10398  5199K   5200K 79618K    16184    0     0  512
     FFS node 10398  5199K   5200K 79618K    16184    0     0  512
<..>

And see what it says at the point where you can not access your disks?


I recently saw a lockup (on alpha) which sounds similar to yours, &
the FFS node pool was exhausted.

Cheers,

Drew



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