Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 11:12:34 -0500 From: Randall Stewart <rrs@cisco.com> To: Andre Guibert de Bruet <andy@siliconlandmark.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A stuck system Message-ID: <458960F2.9090703@cisco.com> In-Reply-To: <58281AA0-3738-490C-9EA8-7766033713A2@siliconlandmark.com> References: <45891FE9.4020700@cisco.com> <20061220040151.B88849@xorpc.icir.org> <4589288E.2070509@cisco.com> <45893F4D.9060104@cisco.com> <58281AA0-3738-490C-9EA8-7766033713A2@siliconlandmark.com>
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Interesting.. I have actually been having this problem for a while... can't remember when I last updated.. its related to pounding the network.. at least mine seems to be... (I am pounding the loopback).. and it appears that everything just "freezes". Is your machine a Gig-a-Byte motherboard? R Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote: > > > On Dec 20, 2006, at 8:49 AM, Randall Stewart wrote: > >> Ok, I was wrong on this... I recreated it.. hooked up >> my em0 card to my laptop (right now its isolated >> running the mpi tests and uses the loopback only). >> >> I do a ping >> >> And ta-da the system comes back to life after >> being hung for 15 minutes. >> >> This time I did not see any of the usual syslog messages >> either... of course it was only "stuck" for 15 minutes or >> so... >> >> I will leave the thing running and get it stuck again and >> validate that the msk and usb will also cause the machine >> to come back to life.. >> >> Is there any way this could be a lost interupt type problem (remember >> the scheduler is appearing to "stop" scheduling things). OR >> is this a problem with my hardware... somehow failing to >> deliver interupts maybe??? > > > I am seeing something similar on my dual Xeon system. It appears that a > kernel from December 13th did not exhibit this behavior whereas one > from the 16th does. I am able to "revive" the machine by pushing traf > on the msk0 interface. > > Kernel config: http://bling.properkernel.com/freebsd/BLING > > Andy > > /* Andre Guibert de Bruet * 6f43 6564 7020 656f 2e74 4220 7469 6a20 */ > /* Code poet / Sysadmin * 636f 656b 2e79 5320 7379 6461 696d 2e6e */ > /* GSM: +1 734 846 8758 * 5520 494e 2058 6c73 7565 6874 002e 0000 */ > /* WWW: siliconlandmark.com * C/C++, Java, Perl, PHP, SQL, XHTML, XML */ > > > _______________________________________________ > 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" > -- Randall Stewart NSSTG - Cisco Systems Inc. 803-345-0369 <or> 803-317-4952 (cell)
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