From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 15 19:09:16 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA24756 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 19:09:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from ki.net (ki.net [142.77.249.8]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA24737 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 19:08:41 -0800 (PST) Received: (from scrappy@localhost) by ki.net (8.7.4/8.7.4) id QAA02257; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 16:37:10 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 16:37:07 -0500 (EST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Joerg Wunsch cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Locks. In-Reply-To: <199603152047.VAA02384@uriah.heep.sax.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 15 Mar 1996, J Wunsch wrote: > As Andrew Foster wrote: > > > This machine will either randomly reboot or lock up. When it locks I can > > switch vty's but not login (no password comes up), I can open some ports > > that inetd isn't control of, but I can't telnet in or anything. > > This usually means the processes aren't context-switching anymore. It > is often related to disk hangs. > *raises hand* are there any known problems with the current drivers in -stable that would cause a disk hang? I'm noticing the same problem on a system with 4 drives, each drive with a 32meg or larger SWAP partition on it... that is being *heavily* used (ie. I'm into about 38-60Meg of swap on that machine) She usually takes about 2+ days before it hangs though, the last time it did it 1:40hrs ago, you could hear the disk thrashing away, I presume on news unbatching, and then it just hung. Marc G. Fournier | POP Mail Telnet Acct DNS Hosting System | WWW Services Database Services | Knowledge, Administrator | | Information and scrappy@ki.net | WWW: http://www.ki.net | Communications, Inc