Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 23:48:00 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Khairil Yusof <kaeru@pd.jaring.my> Cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Temporary lockups on 5-release Message-ID: <20030304074800.GA89765@rot13.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <1046755156.598.92.camel@daemon.home.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 01:19:18PM +0800, Khairil Yusof wrote: > Since upgrading to 5.0, I often get temporary lockups. > > Basically the system just hangs for a second or two, almost as if it's > going to freeze and hang, then continues again. > > I'm no expert on SMP, but how can a user like me, help out trace > problems like this? > > Or is this behaviour expected due to SMPng not being complete and a lot > of drivers still using Giant lock? It can be due to Giant contention..was the system under heavy load at the time? Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+ZFowWry0BWjoQKURAraPAJ0Q2XY8E1uxpLrNgw9XGz+Gmi96sACgoV/y jiKWl5wp6wh1G1QkYeTu2b0= =8F/p -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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