Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 14:50:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Mr M P Searle <csubl@csv.warwick.ac.uk> To: simokawa@sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp (Hidetoshi Shimokawa) Cc: mike@smith.net.au, mjacob@feral.com, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: complete lockup under large I/O? Message-ID: <199901111450.OAA07913@lupin.csv.warwick.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <19990111182435H.simokawa@sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp> from Hidetoshi Shimokawa at "Jan 11, 99 06:24:35 pm"
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> mike> > I sometimes have similar problem. > mike> > In such case, ps shows many process are waiting at vmpfw or ppwait state. > mike> > mike> Is there one waiting in 'ffsvget'? If so, we've seen this on a system > mike> here was well. Luoqi and Tor seem to have some ideas on resolving it. > > No such process. > Many proccesses waiting at vmpfw are 'cron'. It may be because I run > package build on MFS during night and found the machine freeze when I > woke up. > > All states that can be found is: > > accept > getblk > inode > nanslp > nfsd > nfsidl > pause > ppwait > psleep > sbwait > sched > select > ttyin > vmpfw > wait > wmesg > wswbuf > > Where can I find what each state means? Mike. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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