From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 13 10:20:03 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C533D16A4BF for ; Sat, 13 Sep 2003 10:20:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (u173n10.eastlink.ca [24.224.173.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1FEA43FE5 for ; Sat, 13 Sep 2003 10:20:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7405A3465E; Sat, 13 Sep 2003 14:19:51 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7156D34640; Sat, 13 Sep 2003 14:19:51 -0300 (ADT) Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 14:19:51 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: William L Stube II In-Reply-To: <3F61E153.9080309@lssaa.wisc.edu> Message-ID: <20030913141913.X82880@ganymede.hub.org> References: <3F61E153.9080309@lssaa.wisc.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Processes Hanging X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 17:20:03 -0000 What does ps axul show, specifically for the WCHAN column on those processes? On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, William L Stube II wrote: > I am having a problem with processes hanging up after some amount of > time. The machine starts up, runs fine for some length of time, then > httpd processes start hanging around. All of which appear to be waiting > for disk. > > www 12484 0.0 0.7 3948 2620 ?? D 3:43AM 0:00.02 > /usr/local/sbin/httpd > www 12574 0.0 0.7 3936 2552 ?? D 4:17AM 0:00.01 > /usr/local/sbin/httpd > www 12576 0.0 0.7 3936 2552 ?? D 4:18AM 0:00.01 > /usr/local/sbin/httpd > www 12577 0.0 0.7 3936 2552 ?? D 4:18AM 0:00.01 > /usr/local/sbin/httpd > www 12578 0.0 0.8 4108 2960 ?? D 4:18AM 0:00.03 > /usr/local/sbin/httpd > > This time, the processes hung after about 3 days since my last hard > reset. The time before that it was about 18 days. When I attempt to > reboot the machine just sits there. I have to power the machine off for > it to actually restart. > > Any suggestions? > > Thanks, > > Bill > > FreeBSD foo.org 4.8-STABLE FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE #0: Thu Aug 7 09:21:32 > CDT 2003 root@foo.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/molpe48s i386 > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >