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Date:      Thu, 5 Oct 2006 06:51:42 +0200
From:      Peter Holm <peter@holm.cc>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org>, stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ffs snapshot lockup
Message-ID:  <20061005045142.GA81766@peter.osted.lan>
In-Reply-To: <20061004194148.GA37672@xor.obsecurity.org>
References:  <20060922190328.GA64849@xor.obsecurity.org> <555B84D2-520F-44D6-84D6-CF9CE7EE47C7@khera.org> <20060922203654.GA65693@xor.obsecurity.org> <847DD3A5-D5DD-4D3E-B755-64B13D1DA506@khera.org> <20061003084315.GA89654@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <DFEA4E5F-2337-4383-8765-F5901BDA49E9@khera.org> <20061004140808.GD89654@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <20061004163944.GA35412@xor.obsecurity.org> <BB1FAD7A-1114-49D6-BC2E-C1B4B9D0C807@khera.org> <20061004194148.GA37672@xor.obsecurity.org>

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On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 03:41:48PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 01:06:37PM -0400, Vivek Khera wrote:
> > 
> > On Oct 4, 2006, at 12:39 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > 
> > >>>
> > >>>The only thing I think was running at the time would be a large file
> > >>>copy from a remote system to this one using rsync.
> > >>
> > >>As I understand, you got the panic. Then, you shall post the panic  
> > >>message.
> > >>If you have core file, then running kgdb on the core may show  
> > >>required
> > >>information.
> > >>(it shall be on the console exactly before en
> > >>and backtrace (using the bt command of ddb) of the paniced thread.
> > >
> > >YOu can also do 'show msgbuf' from DDB.
> > >
> > 
> > i ran kgdb on the vmcore file.  since the dump was generated by  
> > calling doadump from DDB, the backtrace was showing the call stack of  
> > that.
> > 
> > from what i read in the output from kgdb, it seems that something  
> > locked the kernel and we broke to debugger from the watchdog timeout  
> > (I enable software watchdog).
> 
> Hmm, be careful with that - if you set the timeout too low (and note
> that for some workloads O(minutes) may even be too low) then you'll
> get a lot of false positives.
> 


Oh, yes. I've using this with success:

watchdogd -t 3600 -e 'ls /tmp /dev > /dev/null; true' -s 60

- Peter
> Kris

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