Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 23:44:15 +0200 From: Benjamin Lutz <lutzb@student.ethz.ch> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: lockup in FreeBSD 5.1 Message-ID: <20031006234415.7ee47ef4.lutzb@student.ethz.ch>
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Hi, I have a friend for whom I installed FreeBSD 5.1. Recently, the box has started acting up... programs like dhclient would freeze, driving the load up to above 3. If killed, some other program would freeze minutes later. I've been puzzled by this behaviour, since I run 5.1 on two other machines without problems, and I haven't heard anything like this from others running 5.1. Maybe someone has an insight? The interesting thing is - today I was "watching" the machine with top, while she used it normaly (me = maxlor, her = theres). Below you find what top displayed before the machine went offline (I assume she powercycled it). The interesting thing is that multiple processes seem to be locked in Giant... could this be a driver issue? On the hardware side, we have an old K6 machine, with some NIC that uses the vr driver; the other stuff I can't remember right now. Anyone have an idea what I can do about this? Greetings Benjamin top output: last pid: 716; load averages: 3.63, 0.98, 0.59 up 0+01:09:30 23:33:30 29 processes: 2 running, 21 sleeping, 6 lock CPU states: 0.1% user, 0.0% nice, 98.5% system, 1.2% interrupt, 0.1% idle Mem: 31M Active, 6600K Inact, 24M Wired, 6064K Cache, 18M Buf, 14M Free Swap: 155M Total, 14M Used, 140M Free, 9% Inuse, 12K In PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND 406 root -16 0 3284K 712K spread 2:16 25.83% 25.83% sshd 602 theres 96 0 9600K 4660K *Giant 5:09 7.81% 7.81% xmms 505 theres 96 0 25768K 14460K *Giant 4:15 1.12% 1.12% XFree86 524 theres 96 0 13160K 5784K *Giant 0:38 0.54% 0.54% xchat 565 maxlor 96 0 2144K 872K RUN 0:07 0.00% 0.00% top 451 root 96 0 1152K 472K *Giant 0:07 0.00% 0.00% moused 510 theres 96 0 6524K 2408K select 0:04 0.00% 0.00% fluxbox 548 maxlor 96 0 6012K 904K select 0:01 0.00% 0.00% sshd 532 root 4 0 6028K 900K sbwait 0:00 0.00% 0.00% sshd 268 root 96 0 1232K 580K *Giant 0:00 0.00% 0.00% syslogd 216 root 96 0 1128K 348K *Giant 0:00 0.00% 0.00% dhclient 424 root 8 0 1260K 640K nanslp 0:00 0.00% 0.00% cron 549 maxlor 20 0 1412K 196K pause 0:00 0.00% 0.00% csh 490 root 8 0 1540K 524K wait 0:00 0.00% 0.00% su 491 theres 20 0 1256K 12K pause 0:00 0.00% 0.00% csh 504 theres 8 0 2460K 844K wait 0:00 0.00% 0.00% xinit 492 theres 8 0 864K 12K wait 0:00 0.00% 0.00% sh 358 root 96 0 1160K 444K RUN 0:00 0.00% 0.00% usbd 483 root 5 0 1200K 544K ttyin 0:00 0.00% 0.00% getty 488 root 5 0 1200K 544K ttyin 0:00 0.00% 0.00% getty 486 root 5 0 1200K 544K ttyin 0:00 0.00% 0.00% getty 482 root 5 0 1200K 544K ttyin 0:00 0.00% 0.00% getty 485 root 5 0 1200K 544K ttyin 0:00 0.00% 0.00% getty 487 root 5 0 1200K 544K ttyin 0:00 0.00% 0.00% getty 484 root 5 0 1200K 544K ttyin 0:00 0.00% 0.00% getty 489 root 5 0 1200K 544K ttyin 0:00 0.00% 0.00% getty 601 theres 8 0 860K 12K wait 0:00 0.00% 0.00% sh 523 theres 8 0 860K 32K wait 0:00 0.00% 0.00% sh 142 root 20 0 224K 12K pause 0:00 0.00% 0.00% adjkerntz
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