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Date:      Thu, 17 Sep 2020 23:31:54 +0000
From:      bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org
To:        bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   [Bug 248659] random system freezes
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--- Comment #5 from rkoberman@gmail.com ---
I've continued to analyze the problem. Don't know if this will help track it
soen, but I have noted the following:
System is substantially more stable under X (Mate) than under just VT. Once=
 I
start Mate, I often have the system stay up and running for over an hour. W=
hen
X11 is not running, I have not seen the system stay operational for over 10
minutes when the keyboard is not active. Also, when working on X, I have had
the system lock up even when the keyboard is active.

I have not tested the reliability of the system when using a vty while X is
also running.

The freeze is not instantaneous. With my system monitor running and a bulk =
disk
to disk data transfer running (rsync of 190GB of media files) from a USB di=
sk
to the system disk, I note that the transfer slow dramatically a few seconds
before the complete freeze. The write rate slowly declines from over 50MBps=
 to
zero. When it reaches zero, the system may be barely alive. I have managed =
to
do a sync(1) once or twice which greatly reduces the number of corrections
needed by fsck when I reboot. Even when the keyboard stops responding, my
system monitor (gkrellm) will continue to update for a few seconds and on a
couple of occasions, Ctrl-C to a frozen process caused the system to become
responsive again for a couple of seconds with the system monitor updating a=
nd
commands typed but not even echoed to appear in terminal windows.

My system has only 4B of RAM, so is rather restricted. Have not been able to
even try running a VM on it. I have 16 G on order, but lost in the mail.

The system ahd a WD Black 2TB drive. Could a drive issue be at the root? The
initial report wee also on a fairly recent Lenovo system. Could a bad disk
batch be the trigger? But, if it is a disk issue, why no problems on 12.1?

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