Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 22:51:33 -0500 From: "Bradley Dunn" <dunn@harborcom.net> To: faried nawaz <fn@pain.csrv.uidaho.edu> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: lockups. Message-ID: <199606220255.WAA01574@ns2.harborcom.net>
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system: P120, 64MB, 300MB swap, 3 scsi drives on two bt946c's Same problem. Freezing about three times daily. Latest sources. I am going to recompile with the debugging options and see if I can find anything. It doesn't panic, it just freezes. On 21 Jun 96 at 19:22, faried nawaz wrote: > > system: > pentium 100, 32mb ram (a web server) > 4 scsi drives on two scsi controllers (bt946c and aha2940w) > 48 mb swap (only hits the max swap when there's a messed up cgi-bin > running, otherwise stays around 3-10mb) > > I'm experiencing lockups. The machine seems to work fine for a > while, and then locks. I can change terminals on the console > (syscons), the screensaver works, but the machine's dead to > network/terminal io. > > I supped Thursday afternoon (June 20th), and the first lockup > happened at 7:30 this morning. It's been up and down ever since. I > resup'd and rebuilt a new kernel this afternoon (didn't see any > fixes that would help me, though). > > It just crashed again. This time, I was logged in and running top > both at the console and remotely. Both tops show pagedaemon taking > ~ 35% cpu, and being in vnwait; most httpd processes are either in > vmwait or netio. vmdaemon is taking 0.08% cpu and is in psleep. Top > says the load was 4.55 (before it locked up). No errant processes > appear on top (other than pagedaemon?), and the web server is > configured not to start more than 50 concurrent servers (it's > Apache). > > > I can't switch back to -release for this machine (mostly because of > the aha2940w). For now, I'm going to try and compile a kernel using > June 18th sources. I will be around this weekend to work on this. Bradley Dunn <dunn@harborcom.net>
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