Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2003 10:48:47 +0100 From: Pete French <pfrench@firstcallgroup.co.uk> To: dgw@liwest.at, rwatson@freebsd.org Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Server overloaded? Or is it a bug? Message-ID: <E19ODq3-0009nP-00@mailhost.firstcallgroup.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200306052057.36601.dgw@liwest.at>
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> It asked me for the password, and then hanged. I guess it's something with the > processes, but the kern.maxproc sysctl is set to 4068, and I never have so > many processes. Ahhh... I've seen a server do that several times. In my case it was because a disc had locked up. So the machine runs fine, but anything which needs to access that disc would freeze - loginswouldnt work, the webserver would only serrve cached pages. Due to the fact BSD caches so much and does such a good job of it then it appears large chunks of the machine were running fine. In my case it turned out to be a wrongly configures SCSI bus (as shipped by Compaq!) -pcf.
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