From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 5 12:07:34 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD1BB16A4CE; Fri, 5 Mar 2004 12:07:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.komquats.com (h24-108-145-252.gv.shawcable.net [24.108.145.252]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5205A43D41; Fri, 5 Mar 2004 12:07:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Cy.Schubert@komquats.com) Received: from cwsys.cwsent.com (cwsys [10.1.1.1]) by mail.komquats.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E49CD5A82E; Fri, 5 Mar 2004 12:07:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from cwsys (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cwsys.cwsent.com (8.12.11/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i25K7SHc003057; Fri, 5 Mar 2004 12:07:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca) Message-Id: <200403052007.i25K7SHc003057@cwsys.cwsent.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.6.3 04/04/2003 with nmh-1.0.4 From: Cy Schubert X-os: FreeBSD X-Sender: cy@cwsent.com X-URL: http://www.komquats.com/ To: Don Lewis Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 12:07:28 -0800 Sender: Cy.Schubert@komquats.com cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sysctl spinning (was: Re: ps Causes Hard Hang) (fwd) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Cy Schubert List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 20:07:34 -0000 The problem would have bitten me by now. I'd say the patch has fixed it. Thanks for all your work Don. Good stuff! Cheers, -- Cy Schubert http://www.komquats.com/ BC Government . FreeBSD UNIX Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca . cy@FreeBSD.org http://www.gov.bc.ca/ . http://www.FreeBSD.org/ ------- Forwarded Message Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 04:54:58 -0800 From: Cy Schubert To: Don Lewis Subject: Re: sysctl spinning (was: Re: ps Causes Hard Hang) (fwd) In message <200403050700.i257087E006207@gw.catspoiler.org>, Don Lewis writes: > On 4 Mar, Cy Schubert wrote: > > So far so good, the problem appears to be fixed. I'll leave it in > > production tonight. If I have any fallout tonight, I'll notify you tomorrow > > > morning. > > I'm somewhat suprised that you haven't seen any other signs of breakage. > I'd expect to see either some sysctl calls that fail with an ENOMEM > error, or the continuation of the looping problem, depending on which > limit gets hit first. > I'm only seeing this problem on only one of my systems, the firewall, which has the smallest memory configuration (48 MB). The problem doesn't occur immediately after reboot but does occur a few minutes later when the squid proxy finally comes up. So far I'm seeing an uptime of: 4:45AM up 8 mins, 1 user, load averages: 0.07, 0.64, 0.46 I'll watch it for the rest of the day. Interestingly the other four systems running -CURRENT, three here at home and my desktop UNIX system at work (sorry, my prod systems at work still run -STABLE) have not exhibited any symptoms. As far as any other symptoms are concerned, it never stayed up long enough for me to notice any other symptoms. What prompted me to notice is that my Internet connectivity disappeared because my firewall was down. As I hardly log into the box (it normally just... happily runs), I never really noticed anything else. I only log into it to maintain it, the rest of it's pretty much automated. So, no, I didn't notice any other symptoms as it just stopped working after the upgrade. I will let you know by tonight how it fares. So far so good and this is a good sign so far. Cheers, - -- Cy Schubert http://www.komquats.com/ BC Government . FreeBSD UNIX Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca . cy@FreeBSD.org http://www.gov.bc.ca/ . http://www.FreeBSD.org/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" ------- End of Forwarded Message