From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 29 19:57:37 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65EA216A41A for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 19:57:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Received: from weak.local (freefall.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E261913C45B; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 19:57:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: <474F19BA.5070008@FreeBSD.org> Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 20:57:46 +0100 From: Kris Kennaway User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Macintosh/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Josh Paetzel References: <200711291159.59742.josh@tcbug.org> In-Reply-To: <200711291159.59742.josh@tcbug.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange filesystem related console output X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 19:57:37 -0000 Josh Paetzel wrote: > # uname -a > FreeBSD services.tcbug.org 6.2-STABLE FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #0: Wed Oct 17 > 18:54:12 UTC 2007 root@services.tcbug.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SERVICES > amd64 > > Yesterday, after many moons of reliable service I awoke to find this box had > spontaniously rebooted during the night. It's a core2quad that doesn't do > any one particular thing, but by virtue of all the stuff running on it it > stays pretty busy....half dozen jails, mailserver, webserver, pgsql, mysql, > occassional build machine so on and so forth. When I tried to build a > package with it it rebooted again about 30 seconds in to the compile....I > checked cpu temps, booted a live cd with the hard drive diagnostics, ran > memtest....hardware looks fine, which doesn't mean much of course. > > Anyways, I brought the box back up, and it immediately goes in to bg_fsck + > gmirror rebuild contention....I try building a package again, and it > immediately reboots. > > So I boot it in single user, set the bgfsck_delay to 12 hours and then bring > it back up multiuser. It starts syncing the gmirror, I build my packages, > box works fine the rest of the day.....about 12 hours later the fsck starts, > and about 20 minutes in to it I get this spammed to the console.... > > fsync: giving up on dirty > 0xffffff00614975d0: tag devfs, type VCHR > usecount 1, writecount 0, refcount 1755 mountedhere 0xffffff0005f4c000 > flags () > v_object 0xffffff00618541c0 ref 0 pages 42464 > lock type devfs: EXCL (count 1) by thread 0xffffff004facb720 (pid 77517) > dev mirror/gm0s1f > > I kept waiting for a panic or another reboot, but it never came.....today the > box appears to be back in action. > > I can't help but think this console message is somehow related to the reboots, > but no idea what really happened here. > > Any insight apprectiated.....more diagnostic info is always available upon > request. I see this a fair bit under certain loads, it is harmless though. Kris