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From: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
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Subject: Re: Odd quirks after updating to 5.2...
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On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Peter Losher wrote:

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> Ever since I updated one of our other boxes from 5.1 to 5.2, I have been
> having issues with the periodic processes not finishing up properly,
> which after a week or so fills up all the permitted forked processes,
> and then causes FreeBSD to deprive itself of resources.

They weren't getting blocked in getblk or inode, were they? Thats one
thing that we're still chasing.

> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-January/031656.html
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> (heavy I/O causing freeze)

Sounds similar, but I'd need to see the output of 'ps axl' to see the
WCHAN for the offending process(es).

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