Date: Sun, 4 Aug 1996 16:55:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Cc: scrappy@ki.net, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, dg@root.com, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: problem with -current system grinding to a halt... Message-ID: <199608042355.QAA06353@shrimp.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <199608042234.IAA09424@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Aug 5, 96 08:04:45 am
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do you have cmomconsole? if so, you should drop into ddb and do a ps.. that'll tell you what everything is hanging on.. alternatively, set the default tty mode to include stty status ^T and then if s process hangs, and you are logger into it, you can do a ^T and see what it's waiting for..... > > Marc G. Fournier stands accused of saying: > > > > > > I should have been clearer I guess; the 'w' freeze was coincidental - > > > the system dies _consistently_ after about 18 hours of uptime, with no > > > console messages. Regardless of whether I'm logged in or not, and > > > apparently unrelated to any specific system activity. I say 'apparently' > > > because it's not easy to see exactly what the system is doing. > > > > > > > This sounds like the SCSI bus hangs I used to get with one of > > my systems...where everything seemed to be running until you tried to > > deal with somethin gthat had to go to the drive (ie. login, w, df, etc) > > > > When this happens, check your drive...does the hard drive light > > come on and stay on? > > I can't tell. It's in Sweden and I'm not. 8( > > How did you eventually resolve your problem? > > > Marc G. Fournier scrappy@ki.net > > -- > ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ > ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ > ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ > ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ > ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[ >
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