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Date:      Thu, 5 Feb 2004 15:58:09 -0500
From:      "Robin P. Blanchard" <robin.blanchard@gactr.uga.edu>
To:        "Ken Smith" <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU>, "Brian F. Feldman" <green@freebsd.org>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: Processes blocked on getblk or ufs
Message-ID:  <EE3D3FBAFFCAED448C21C398FDAD91AC013BDEA8@EBE1.gc.nat>

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> I have a machine sitting at the ddb prompt in exactly this=20
> state. Anyone know how to dig something useful out of the=20
> current state the buffer cache is in?  I know how to find out=20
> what vnodes are locked but don't know how to go from that to=20
> see what underlying buffers are causing the problem.
>=20
> I should be able to cause a dump of the machine as well but=20
> it has 2Gb of memory in it so transferring the dump to=20
> someone other than me who could look at it might be painful...

Well...I went ahead an induced a dump (where the 2650 has been wedged in
"getblk" since last installworld). Anyone want to take a look at it. =
It's a
1024M dump compressed to 171M.


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Robin P. Blanchard
Systems Integration Specialist
Georgia Center for Continuing Education
fon: 706.542.2404 < > fax: 706.542.6546
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