From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jan 31 15:58:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA00594 for current-outgoing; Sat, 31 Jan 1998 15:58:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA00589 for ; Sat, 31 Jan 1998 15:58:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA02250; Sat, 31 Jan 1998 18:58:30 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from toor) Message-Id: <199801312358.SAA02250@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: -current locks my machine frequently In-Reply-To: <199801312344.KAA00674@word.smith.net.au> from Mike Smith at "Feb 1, 98 10:14:05 am" To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 18:58:30 -0500 (EST) Cc: dmaddox@scsn.net, plm@xs4all.nl, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG From: "John S. Dyson" Reply-To: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe current" Mike Smith said: > > > > John Dyson made some changes last night that I had hoped would finally > > fix the problem, but I just had the machine lock up again a few minutes > > ago. It always seems to occur when X is running (usually when Netscape > > starts to swap heavily). > > Odd; I'm running -current on a very memory-short laptop, under X, using > netscape/emacs/exmh, and it thrashes pretty solidly but certainly > hasn't fallen over yet. > > I *have* noticed these odd pauses where all filesystem activity seems > to block for a few seconds (maybe 10 or so). It's not disk spin-up > either. This includes procfs activity, so I can't use ps to find out > what's going on. > I'm going to take some more stabs at the problem. Donald, if you haven't send me a copy of your config, would you please do so. Also, the dmesg output could also be helpful... If you have already sent it, let me know, and I'll hunt around for it (my email volume is huge, and things get buried easily.) -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@freebsd.org | it just makes you look stupid, jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig.