From owner-freebsd-stable Mon May 10 13:37:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from lazlo.internal.steam.com (lazlo.steam.com [199.108.84.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14E5115DDF for ; Mon, 10 May 1999 13:37:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cliff@steam.com) Received: from lazlo.internal.steam.com (cliff@lazlo.internal.steam.com [192.168.32.2]) by lazlo.internal.steam.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA06218; Mon, 10 May 1999 13:37:01 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 13:37:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Cliff Skolnick X-Sender: cliff@lazlo.internal.steam.com To: Mike Tancsa Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vm_fault deadlock and PR 8416 (was Re: Strange reboot saga ) In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19990510163104.01a7b100@staff.sentex.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I had been finding my system in deadlock (kernel running, responding to pings, but unable to do any user level stuff). My system was swapping, but not a hell of a lot, and doing a bunch of file access. It looked like a disk or a vm thing, and the PR sounded like it fit. So I applied the patch and it has seemed to help. It's only been a few days, so I'm not willing to say it has been fixed 100%. Cliff On Mon, 10 May 1999, Mike Tancsa wrote: > At 01:17 PM 5/10/99 -0700, Cliff Skolnick wrote: > > > >It seems to have solved my deadlock problems. I'm running w/o it now, ready > >to try to go into the debugger after the next lockup. I'm expecting it > >within a few hours. > > You mean, > > find / -type f -exec grep whatever "{}" \; & > find / -type f -exec grep whatever "{}" \; & > > does not lock up your system right away ? I can do it on a number of my > 3.x systems here and it locks them right away. I never had to wait a few > hours for it to happen. FreeBSD 3.1-STABLE #0: Fri May 7 06:54:06 EDT 1999 > for example dies within seconds. Or do you mean you are running with the > patche as opposed to without ? > > ---Mike > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Mike Tancsa, tel 01.519.651.3400 > Network Administrator, mike@sentex.net > Sentex Communications www.sentex.net > Cambridge, Ontario Canada > -- Cliff Skolnick | "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain Steam Tunnel Operations | a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty cliff@steam.com | nor safety." http://www.steam.com/ | -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message