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Date:      Wed, 30 Jan 2002 07:34:50 +1100
From:      Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au>
To:        Sergey Gershtein <sg@ur.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Strange lock-ups during backup over nfs after adding 1024M RAM
Message-ID:  <20020130073449.B78919@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <1931130530386.20020128130947@ur.ru>; from sg@ur.ru on Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 01:09:47PM %2B0500
References:  <20020126204941.H17540-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> <1931130530386.20020128130947@ur.ru>

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On 2002-Jan-28 13:09:47 +0500, Sergey Gershtein <sg@ur.ru> wrote:
> It was surprising to me that when
>everything is locked-up you can still type on the keyboard, switch
>consoles (alt-F1..Alt-Fn), but not log in or even reboot the system
>with ctrl-alt-del. It just ignores ctrl-alt-del, but allowes to type,
>scroll the console with arrow keys after pressing scrollLock, etc.

That suggests that the kernel is still running happily but something
has deadlocked.

Compile and run a kernel with "options DDB".  When it locks up, use
Ctrl-Alt-Esc to enter DDB and try "ps" - this will tell you what
processes are running/blocked.  (Read ddb(4) for more details).

>It was nmbd that continued to answer its queries and was able to write
>to log file. All other log files including /var/log/cron and web
>server logs stopped at the time of lock-up.

nmbd writes direct to files.  cron writes via syslogd.  Apache writes
direct, but other WEB servers may differ.

Peter

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