Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 09:27:10 -0600 From: Guy Helmer <ghelmer@palisadesys.com> To: Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Big problems with 7.1 locking up :-( Message-ID: <49676CCE.30706@palisadesys.com> In-Reply-To: <E1LLJ4n-000Edn-Ry@dilbert.ticketswitch.com> References: <E1LLJ4n-000Edn-Ry@dilbert.ticketswitch.com>
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Pete French wrote: >> Are you using the same disk controller as Peter ? Do both of you run >> with quotas on the file system ? By lockup, do you mean it doesnt >> respond to the network either or just anything that needs disk IO ? >> > > I dont think he can be using yhe same controller, as mine is an > embedded HPO unit. they do make a separate plugin one though - P400 > SAS controller. > > My symptoms are that the thing locks hard and respionds to nothing, no > keypresses or anything. I am assuming that the disc is the first thing to > go though, ebcause I see data which was being written to a file and a > processes reading from that file to the network. more of the file comes > over the network than makes it phyiscally onto the disc > > The only useful error I ever saw was the message about spin > lock / turnstile locks being held for too long. > > -pete. > OK, perhaps my issue is different then. My symptoms seem to be a hang from anything that triggers a fork(), such as entering a command at a shell prompt or entering a user name at the console's login prompt. Network activity still works -- all the TCP connections stay up until I drop into the kernel debugger or power cycle. Guy -- Guy Helmer, Ph.D. Chief System Architect Palisade Systems, Inc.
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