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Date:      Wed, 2 Feb 2005 00:02:51 -0400 (AST)
From:      "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>
To:        Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 4.x, vinum and vrlock ...
Message-ID:  <20050201235936.O89998@ganymede.hub.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050202000752.GJ49172@wantadilla.lemis.com>
References:  <20050131195340.K89998@ganymede.hub.org> <20050202000752.GJ49172@wantadilla.lemis.com>

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On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:

> On Monday, 31 January 2005 at 20:02:50 -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>>
>> What exactly does this mean?
>>
>> /proc/43414/status:rsync 43414 42774 23799 14838 5,1 ctty 1107214940,71735
>> 3,779921 33,791868 vrlock 0 0 0,0,0,2,3,4,5,20,31 -
>> /proc/43479/status:postgres 43479 144 144 144 -1,-1 noflags
>> 1107214989,263828 0,0 1,63591 vrlock 70 70 70,70,70 -
>> /proc/7/status:bufdaemon 7 0 0 0 -1,-1 noflags 1107140099,155 0,0 61,876619
>> vrlock 0 0 0,0 -
>> /proc/9/status:syncer 9 0 0 0 -1,-1 noflags 1107140099,192 0,0 259,373334
>> vrlock 0 0 0,0 -
>
> It looks like breakage from your MUA.   I've deleted the rest; it's
> too painful.
>
>> I seem to get it a fair amount when I'm starting up a jail, where
>> the 'umount' in the start scripts just hangs there seemingly
>> indefinitely ...
>
> If you're talking about the vrlock state, it's used for locking bands
> when updating striped plexes.  If it hangs around for any length of
> time, it'll be a deadlock.  Have you been killing processes?  Has
> anybody else seen this?

I have not been killing processes ... seems to happen more often when I'm 
using rsync to copy a directory hierarchy from one server to the other 
though ...

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Marc G. Fournier           Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org)
Email: scrappy@hub.org           Yahoo!: yscrappy              ICQ: 7615664



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