From owner-freebsd-current Fri Mar 2 10:58:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from freebsd.netcom.com (freebsd.netcom.com [198.211.79.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D54DC37B719 for ; Fri, 2 Mar 2001 10:58:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bugs@freebsd.netcom.com) Received: (from bugs@localhost) by freebsd.netcom.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) id MAA26939 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Fri, 2 Mar 2001 12:58:12 -0600 (CST) From: Mark Hittinger Message-Id: <200103021858.MAA26939@freebsd.netcom.com> Subject: recent -current behaviors To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 12:58:12 -0600 (CST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG One of the things I do with my -current boxes is I run a local rsync to make a backup of the system drive whenever I feel like the thing is stable enough to have a backup made :-) The rsync is fairly intensive I/O wise and memory wise. I see the following behaviors with -current * rsync runs to completion and hangs at the very end, can be interrupted - my guess is trying to free memory * rsync pauses periodically, usually for 30 seconds, and then continues during this pause the system is wedged, no mouse movement etc - my guess is trying to do some garbage collection to get more memory :-) * the server crashes and restarts When I'm not running the rsync its rare to see this trouble. Could we have a bug where freed pages aren't getting freed right? Later Mark Hittinger Earthlink bugs@freebsd.netcom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message