Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 20:26:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Thor Clark <thor@tab012.tabula.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: help -system hangs - the ongoing saga Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.960718200748.13351B-100000@tab012.tabula.com>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
(original problem detailed at end) Some new info, compiled a new kernel with DDB, and escaped into it after system hung - many of the processes (including init) were waiting with lock_write f020e004 I continued a few times, and this didn't change I don't know what this means, or what else I should be looking for... I'm wondering if this is hardware failure at this point, but don't know what to check. Many thanks for any help (even a 'give it up' ;) -Thor Clark thor@tabula.com PS (problem description) problem: After a few hours of activity, system will not start new processes of any kind. It will respond to pings, but that's about all - no telnet, login, http, etc. Background and interactive processes continue to run, but killing off interactive processes does not have any effect on the system - the only recourse is to physically reboot. This is now happening every ~3 hours. No kernel panic occurs, and no kernel messages are ever logged. The system has never recovered on its own ( down once for > 12 hours). system: 2.1 Release (from cd) - kernel recompiled, installed with maxusers 128 options "NMBCLUSTERS=2048" options "OPEN_MAX=256" options "CHILD_MAX=256" 16M, IDE, ASUS P55TP4, 3C509 ethernet runs CERN3.0 httpd, sends out a lot of mail, a few minor background processes, and a lot of short-term, cpu intensive scripts
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.SOL.3.91.960718200748.13351B-100000>