From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Aug 21 0:43:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from bart.acs.nmu.edu (bart.acs.nmu.edu [198.110.193.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB52237B423 for ; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 00:43:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from eward3 (ADMPM322.NMU.EDU [198.110.207.37]) by bart.acs.nmu.edu (8.11.0/8.11.0) with SMTP id e7L7h8Z19128; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 03:43:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Jesseman Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 07:44:12 GMT Message-ID: <20000821.7441229@mis.configured.host> Subject: Re: My System Hangs/Deadlock? To: Billy , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Mozilla/3.0 (compatible; StarOffice/5.2;Win32) X-Priority: 3 (Normal) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I get similar results when I enable QUOTAs on my kernel. When I recompil= e=20 without quotas it don't lockup. I have a dual MB but only one slot=20 filled, SCSI, 4.1-STABLE. In the mean time, I operate without quotas, bu= t=20 eventually I will have to get them in place. My question: should I start= =20 looking at hardware or software configuration first? -Chris >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< On 8/21/00, 2:03:32 AM, Billy wrote regarding My=20= System Hangs/Deadlock?: > I am currently experiencing problems with my FreeBSD system. I just > recently go in my dual celeron/abit box in and have just started to > use it. I am experiencing a strange problem I've never seen before. > Whenever I do some intensive work, my computer will lock up. I still= > see my terminal screen, but it will accept no keyboard/mouse/network > input. It won't even return attempted network connections, it just > sits there dead for all intents and purposes and will stay like this > for as long as I leave it(the longest being ~24H). I have to do a > hard reset to reboot my machine, at which point it commes up fine > (usually, although I have had to fsck the disk once when I did this).= > I do have an SMP system, however this problem occurs on either SMP or= > non-SMP kernel. This also occurs with and without runnning X. > I am running 4.1-STABLE FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE with an SMP kernel. I have= > one IDE disk (DMA not used because of previous problems). I have a > fairly vanilla kernel config. All SCSI entries have been removed, as= > have device entries for devices I do not have. > It does not look like a hardware problem to me (no kernel panics, no > reboots, etc). It does look like a deadlocking problem of some kind,= > but I havn't seen anything in the mail archive or the newsgroups > recently about deadlocks (except for something unrelated I think). > If you have any ideas please let me know. It's kind of annoying for > my non-windows box to need a hard reset. > Relevant Hardware > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > Dual ABit BP6 > 2 Celeron 466 PPGA > Maxtor 20GB 7200RPM Drive EIDE > -billy > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message