Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 11:39:02 +0300 From: Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> To: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@freebsd.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: System hanging during dump Message-ID: <20081019083902.GP7782@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> In-Reply-To: <20081019032104.GB25796@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <20081015082428.GE26536@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <20081015083538.GA72190@icarus.home.lan> <48F65490.6040305@FreeBSD.org> <20081019032104.GB25796@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
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--HAFOnXjCMzlSUiDF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 02:21:04PM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 2008-Oct-15 21:37:36 +0100, Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > >Peter, there was a bug causing dump to hang (completely unrelated to=20 > >UFS2 snapshot generation) merged to RELENG_7 a month or so ago. Can you= =20 > >try updating? >=20 > Well, dump wasn't hanging, rather it was hanging the rest of the system. > In any case, I have upgraded to a recent -stable and am no longer able > to reproduce the problem. >=20 > I have built myself a looping 'ps -axl' which should let me gather more > information if it does re-appear. (In the process, I've found that ps > leaks memory, though that's not a problem until you wrap it in a loop). What memory ? Kernel one ? How did you noted this ? Could you add vmstat -z and vmstat -m to the loop and watch what allocation grows ? --HAFOnXjCMzlSUiDF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkj68iYACgkQC3+MBN1Mb4jTKQCgnnYkmutQg7Td6RprhPDxb/Sh 99EAoJqMlgRfR4S2328UwlBI3IxBUJFV =3+Hr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --HAFOnXjCMzlSUiDF--
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