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Date:      Fri, 27 Oct 2006 12:09:22 -0400
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        bram <bram@diomedia.be>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: RELENG 6.1/AMD64 system hangs when SMP enabled
Message-ID:  <20061027160922.GB96009@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <4541B6AD.3090507@diomedia.be>
References:  <4541B6AD.3090507@diomedia.be>

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On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 09:35:09AM +0200, bram wrote:
> Hi all,
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> I'm rather new to freebsd so forgive me if I am saying things that don't=
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> make sense.
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> I have a dual opteron server running freebsd 6.1/amd64 updated 4 weeks ag=
o.
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> Since I moved to 6 I've been having tho following problem.
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> When I put heavy load on the server (python scripts that take 20 minutes=
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> to complete) the server sometimes hangs.
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> I can then not ping it anymore and it does not respond to anything (no=20
> keyboard power button etc.).
> Mostly there are no error messages or anything so I have no clue to what=
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> the problem is.
> One time it did give an error but I did not wrote it down, but as I=20
> recall it was something like SMP spin lock timed out.
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> It hangs every three weeks
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> Please give me some info on how I can get it to give more info or how to=
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> resolve this problem.

See the chapter on kernel debugging in the develpers handbook

Kris

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