From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 21 04:53:38 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A39C1065673 for ; Wed, 21 Jul 2010 04:53:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from davidxu@freebsd.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FD058FC18; Wed, 21 Jul 2010 04:53:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from apple.my.domain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o6L4rawf098921; Wed, 21 Jul 2010 04:53:37 GMT (envelope-from davidxu@freebsd.org) Message-ID: <4C467D50.1040809@freebsd.org> Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 12:53:36 +0800 From: David Xu User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (X11/20100603) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kostik Belousov References: <4C4510B8.6090105@freebsd.org> <20100720132931.GI2381@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> In-Reply-To: <20100720132931.GI2381@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Current Subject: Re: firefox is stuck in getbuf() X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 04:53:38 -0000 Kostik Belousov wrote: > Can you, please, do the following: > show the backtraces for the system processes, in particular, syncer, > bufdaemon, softdepflush daemon, pagedaemon and vm ? > for the stuck firefox thread, find the address of the buffer > supplied as an argument to getdirtybuf, and print the *(struct buf *)addr ? > This can be done on the live/stuck system using kgdb on /dev/mem. Unfortunately, I can not always reproduce it. :-(