From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 6 17:33:23 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FFC016A4B3 for ; Mon, 6 Oct 2003 17:33:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-64-169-107-253.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.169.107.253]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AC3244005 for ; Mon, 6 Oct 2003 17:33:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from rot13.obsecurity.org (rot13.obsecurity.org [10.0.0.5]) by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCD6166D16; Mon, 6 Oct 2003 17:33:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: by rot13.obsecurity.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A28F2B5C; Mon, 6 Oct 2003 17:33:21 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 17:33:21 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Benjamin Lutz Message-ID: <20031007003321.GA4043@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <20031006234415.7ee47ef4.lutzb@student.ethz.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="AqsLC8rIMeq19msA" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031006234415.7ee47ef4.lutzb@student.ethz.ch> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: lockup in FreeBSD 5.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 00:33:23 -0000 --AqsLC8rIMeq19msA Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 11:44:15PM +0200, Benjamin Lutz wrote: > The interesting thing is - today I was "watching" the machine with > top, while she used it normaly (me = maxlor, her = theres). Below > you find what top displayed before the machine went offline (I > assume she powercycled it). The interesting thing is that multiple > processes seem to be locked in Giant... could this be a driver > issue? Sort of..recall from the 5.1 Early Adopter's Guide that the 5.x branch is work in progress and a major focus of effort is SMP locking pushdown. As of 5.1 Giant still covered a lot of the kernel code paths. > On the hardware side, we have an old K6 machine, with some NIC that > uses the vr driver; the other stuff I can't remember right now. k6 CPUs run notoriously hot and become unreliable at high temperatures..make sure you have more-than-adequate CPU cooling. Kris --AqsLC8rIMeq19msA Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/ggnRWry0BWjoQKURAr5aAKD1YaLR1zMC6GHtHAecjd8JzvaVjgCg/FnC /0fVY0fblv9Cq3niYkMEgJo= =CknP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --AqsLC8rIMeq19msA--