From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Apr 2 12:22:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C5D237B71E for ; Mon, 2 Apr 2001 12:22:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id f32JMmm02655; Mon, 2 Apr 2001 12:22:48 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 12:22:48 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: David Schwartz Cc: Greg Lehey , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.3-RC processes stuck sleeping on "inode" (?vinum) problem update Message-ID: <20010402122247.W813@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20010402022257.N813@fw.wintelcom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from davids@webmaster.com on Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 11:53:25AM -0700 X-all-your-base: are belong to us. Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * David Schwartz [010402 11:53] wrote: > > For the record, I've had a lot of problems with FreeBSD machines failing by > getting into a mode where large numbers of processes start blocking on > 'inode' for long periods of time. This is with 4-STABLE builds over the past > several months. The triggering event seems to be when a long-running > multithreaded program using the LinuxThreads port terminates on an SMP > machine. Do you have anything else in common with the cases mentioned such as using vinum or some other disk manager? -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] Represent yourself, show up at BABUG http://www.babug.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message