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Date:      Thu, 26 Aug 1999 14:17:42 +0300 (EEST)
From:      Adrian Penisoara <ady@warpnet.ro>
To:        Alan Cox <alc@cs.rice.edu>
Cc:        Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de>, scrappy@hub.org, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, alc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 3.2-STABLE hangs after several hours ...
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908261355110.5037-200000@ady.warpnet.ro>
In-Reply-To: <19990824153116.P39490@nonpc.cs.rice.edu>

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Hi,

On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Alan Cox wrote:

> > > >In case anyone is looking at this, with as little info as there is here,
> > > >the last kernel updated was July 13th, so its between then and now that
> > > >the "bug" appears to have been introduced...
> > > 
> > > I also went to update my kernel yesterday and stumbled across what
> > > appears to be the same problems as yours, hanging processes until the
> > > entire system becomes unusable...  And here is what i came up with:
> > 
> >  It seems that I've been bitten by the same bug (the machine suddenly
> > freezes after some 2-3 hours); I'm checking out right now the submitted
> > patch and I'll let you know (probably tomorrow) how it works for me...
> > 
> 
> Please check if you have a process hung in "objtrm".  Juergen did.

 I haven't the kernel debugger compiled in (as this is a production
machine); anyone care to point me out some documentatin suited to my
situation (kernel debugging on production machines) ?

> If so, this is the same bug reported in the "mSQL getting stuck
> in objtrm state" thread, and it has nothing to do with the changes
> below.  (See my earlier message on this subject to the -STABLE list.)

 I checked out the previous threads and my situation appears to be similar
to those described in the "On freezes in 3.2-stable" thread, although I
have only 128Mb of RAM and UP kernel; see the attached dmesg output for
more details...

 Let me tell you how it worked for me: 

  * I had an uptime of more than 13 hours with Juergen's patch, but that's
    not so conclusive, as these freezes tend to be somewhat random

  * When I saw your commit I reverted the patch, cvsupped and rebuilt the 
    kernel; the machine hung up some 7-8 hours later ...

 I really don't know what to blame, kernel bug or faulty hardware; one
thing I can be sure about is that the machine has been rock stable until
I've started to track -STABLE from 3.1-RELEASE somtime around 6th August.

 I'll apply Juergen's patch again and come back to you with details.

> 
> 	Alan
> 

 Thanks,
 Ady (@freebsd.ady.ro)

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