From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 6 02:48:52 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 D001E37B401; Fri, 6 Jun 2003 02:48:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailhost.firstcallgroup.co.uk (dilbert.firstcallgroup.co.uk [194.200.93.142]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D582643F3F; Fri, 6 Jun 2003 02:48:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pfrench@firstcallgroup.co.uk) Received: from pfrench by mailhost.firstcallgroup.co.uk with local (Exim 4.12) id 19ODq3-0009nP-00; Fri, 06 Jun 2003 10:48:47 +0100 To: dgw@liwest.at, rwatson@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <200306052057.36601.dgw@liwest.at> Message-Id: From: Pete French Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2003 10:48:47 +0100 cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Server overloaded? Or is it a bug? 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: Fri, 06 Jun 2003 09:48:53 -0000 > 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.