From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 13 09:11:33 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AACED1065672 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 09:11:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx22.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BD088FC4C for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 09:11:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 27261 invoked by uid 399); 13 Jan 2009 09:11:32 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO lap.dougb.net) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with ESMTPAM; 13 Jan 2009 09:11:32 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-Sender: dougb@dougbarton.us Message-ID: <496C5AC2.90408@FreeBSD.org> Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 01:11:30 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090111) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pete French References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 OpenPGP: id=D5B2F0FB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: yanefbsd@gmail.com, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, kometen@gmail.com Subject: Re: Big problems with 7.1 locking up :-( X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 09:11:33 -0000 Pete French wrote: > Mine never lock up doing buildworlds either. They only lock up when they are > sitting there more of less idle! The machines which have never locked up > are the webservers, which are fairly heavlt loaded. The machine which locks > up the most frequently is a box sitting there doing nothing but DNS, which is > the most lightly loaded of the lot. Silly question but do you have powerd enabled on that server? If so, does disabling it help? Also do you have any of these in /etc/rc.conf (i.e., they are not the same as the default values in /etc/defaults/rc.conf): performance_cx_lowest="HIGH" # Online CPU idle state performance_cpu_freq="NONE" # Online CPU frequency economy_cx_lowest="HIGH" # Offline CPU idle state economy_cpu_freq="NONE" # Offline CPU frequency Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection