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Date:      Wed, 9 Aug 2017 02:17:19 -0700
From:      Mark Millard <markmi@dsl-only.net>
To:        Gleb Popov <6yearold@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, Gautam <list@execve.net>
Subject:   Re: Freebsd 11.0 - system freeze on intensive I/O
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On 2017-Aug-9, at 1:35 AM, Gleb Popov <6yearold at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 10:11 AM, Gautam <list at execve.net> wrote:
>=20
>> Hi,
>>=20
>> I raised this topic on freebsd-questions where I suspect a bug caused =
due
>> to swapfile usage on FreeBSD.
>>=20
>> You could read details in the below thread, but summary is that with =
using
>> a swapfile (not a swap partition) the system freezes on some single =
process
>> intensive I/O. This is 100% reproducible.
>>=20
>> http://marc.info/?l=3Dfreebsd-questions&m=3D150088763825675&w=3D2
>>=20
>> I raised a PR - 220971 ; but there are no backtraces / logs etc. that =
could
>> possibly help.
>>=20

See bugzilla 206048 for some more information:

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D206048


>> I would like to help narrow this down, but do not know how. Any =
suggestions
>> on how to debug a system freeze and what I need to do ? I could then =
try to
>> reproduce this and collect the needed information - traces etc.

It is a long term, known problem, not new with 11.x
as I understand. No reasonable fix is known as I
understand: it is not a coding error but a design
property.

>> Thanks,
>> Gautam
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>>=20
>=20
> I also see symptoms you mentioned on my system, but I'm using ZFS. But =
my
> system is very ancient, so I've been taking it as normal behavior. =
Like you
> said, intensive disk IO turns OS completely unresponsive, except =
pings.


=3D=3D=3D
Mark Millard
markmi at dsl-only.net




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