Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 20:30:56 +0100 From: Attila Nagy <bra@fsn.hu> To: pyunyh@gmail.com Cc: Mailing List FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 8-STABLE freezes on UDP traffic (DNS), 7.x doesn't Message-ID: <4BABB9F0.6010506@fsn.hu> In-Reply-To: <20100325183628.GD1278@michelle.cdnetworks.com> References: <4BAB718C.3090001@fsn.hu> <20100325183628.GD1278@michelle.cdnetworks.com>
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Pyun YongHyeon wrote: > On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 03:22:04PM +0100, Attila Nagy wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I have some recursive nameservers, running unbound and 7.2-STABLE #0: >> Wed Sep 2 13:37:17 CEST 2009 on a bunch of HP BL460c machines (bce >> interfaces). >> These work OK. >> >> During the process of migrating to 8.x, I've upgraded one of these >> machines to 8.0-STABLE #25: Tue Mar 9 18:15:34 CET 2010 (the dates >> indicate an approximate time, when the source was checked out from >> cvsup.hu.freebsd.org, I don't know the exact revision). >> >> The first problem was that the machine occasionally lost network access >> for some minutes. I could log in on the console, and I could see the >> processes, involved in network IO in "keglim" state, but couldn't do any >> network IO. This lasted for some minutes, then everything came back to >> normal. >> I could fix this issue by raising kern.ipc.nmbclusters to 51200 >> (doubling from its default size), when I can't see these blackouts. >> >> But now the machine freezes. It can run for about a day, and then it >> just freezes. I can't even break in to the debugger with sending NMI to it. >> top says: >> last pid: 92428; load averages: 0.49, 0.40, 0.38 up 0+21:13:18 >> 07:41:43 >> 43 processes: 2 running, 38 sleeping, 1 zombie, 2 lock >> CPU: 1.3% user, 0.0% nice, 1.3% system, 26.0% interrupt, 71.3% idle >> Mem: 1682M Active, 99M Inact, 227M Wired, 5444K Cache, 44M Buf, 5899M Free >> Swap: >> >> PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND >> 45011 bind 4 49 0 1734M 1722M RUN 2 37:42 22.17% unbound >> 712 bind 3 44 0 70892K 19904K uwait 0 71:07 3.86% >> python2.6 >> >> The common in these freezes seems to be the high interrupt count. >> Normally, during load the CPU times look like this: >> CPU: 3.5% user, 0.0% nice, 1.8% system, 0.4% interrupt, 94.4% idle >> >> I could observe a "freeze", where top remained running and everything >> was 0%, except interrupt, which was 25% exactly (the machine has four >> cores), and another, where I could save the following console output: >> CPU: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.2% system, 50.0% interrupt, 49.8% idle >> > > When you see high number of interrupts, could you check this comes > from bce(4)? I guess you can use systat(1) to check how many number > interrupts are generated from bce(4). > I've tried it multiple times, but couldn't yet catch the moment when the machine was still alive (so the script could run) and there were increased amount of interrupts.home | help
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