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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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