Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1996 20:52:08 +0200 (EET) From: Heikki Suonsivu <hsu@clinet.fi> To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@ki.net> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Locks. Message-ID: <199603161852.UAA11323@cantina.clinet.fi> In-Reply-To: "Marc G. Fournier"'s message of 16 Mar 1996 05:18:25 %2B0200 References: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960315163418.2202A-100000@ki.net>
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In article <Pine.BSF.3.91.960315163418.2202A-100000@ki.net> "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@ki.net> writes:
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.
Switch NCR controllers to Adapteks. If you have any parallel printers
connected, remove them. Helps a bit, but does not make wonders.
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