From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jul 21 11:51:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA14657 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 11:51:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gateman.zeus.leitch.com (gateman.zeus.leitch.com [204.187.61.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA14620 for ; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 11:51:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from woods@mail.zeus.leitch.com) Received: from zeus.leitch.com (tap.zeus.leitch.com [204.187.61.10]) by gateman.zeus.leitch.com (8.8.5/8.7.3/1.0) with ESMTP id OAA02971 for ; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 14:48:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: from brain.zeus.leitch.com (brain.zeus.leitch.com [204.187.61.32]) by zeus.leitch.com (8.7.5/8.7.3/1.0) with ESMTP id OAA08157 for ; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 14:48:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from woods@localhost) by brain.zeus.leitch.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA04259; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 14:52:13 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from woods@mail.zeus.leitch.com) Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 14:52:13 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199807211852.OAA04259@brain.zeus.leitch.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: woods@zeus.leitch.com (Greg A. Woods) To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tree tagging put off by ~12 hours. In-Reply-To: Satoshi Asami's message of "Tue, July 21, 1998 08:30:41 -0700" regarding "Re: Tree tagging put off by ~12 hours." id <199807211530.IAA23030@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> References: <199807211511.IAA00282@dingo.cdrom.com> <199807211530.IAA23030@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> X-Mailer: VM 6.45 under Emacs 20.2.1 Reply-To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Organization: Planix, Inc.; Toronto, Ontario; Canada Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [ On Tue, July 21, 1998 at 08:30:41 (-0700), Satoshi Asami wrote: ] > Subject: Re: Tree tagging put off by ~12 hours. > > * Any feedback on the cause of these hangs? > > No idea. By the way, the one yesterday was during a parallel compile > (my modem got disconnected at about the same time, but I don't think > it's related). I had my 2.2-stable system (cvsup'ed July 9) go wonky this morning with something that was quite freaky: Jul 21 11:17:02 brain /kernel: vm_fault: pager input (probably hardware) error, PID 28251 failure Jul 21 11:17:33 brain last message repeated 33859 times Jul 21 11:18:42 brain last message repeated 85337 times Jul 21 11:19:13 brain last message repeated 37131 times Jul 21 11:19:39 brain last message repeated 31988 times Jul 21 11:20:09 brain last message repeated 36535 times Jul 21 11:20:14 brain last message repeated 6173 times That process was my window manager. By the time of the last entry above I had managed to switch to the real console and kill it. Then another process started complaining similarly. Finally I killed them all off and decided to reboot the system and give it a power cycle. It's been running fine since. Unfortunately I do not (yet) have ECC memory in this box, so perhaps it was a hardware failure, but I'm beginning to suspect that something nasty has been tickled in the kernel since the March 31 cvsup which I was running up until the day before yesterday. BTW, does anyone have a *bad* ECC DIMM? I'd love to do some testing.... -- Greg A. Woods +1 416 443-1734 VE3TCP Planix, Inc. ; Secrets of the Weird To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message