Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 16:09:03 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Doug Lee <dgl@dlee.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: deadlock caused by idprio? Message-ID: <20051119210903.GC21199@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20051119183236.GA1042@kirk.dlee.org> References: <20051119183236.GA1042@kirk.dlee.org>
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--lCAWRPmW1mITcIfM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 01:32:36PM -0500, Doug Lee wrote: > I just ran a MySQL lookup process (written in Perl) as root prefixed > with "idprio 1." I expected it to take a while, but not several > minutes. After a while I decided to abort it, so I typed ^c in its > `screen' window. From then on (either from the ^c point or the idprio > run, I know not which), I could not create any new processes, nor > could I kill the running task. Any attempt to do either would hang > indefinitely. I could end processes and work within existing > processes as long as they didn't try to create new ones. I entered > the debugger (I use the alt method of <cr>~^b) and typed, among other > things, "show lockedvnodes" and got one vnode which said "... with 22 > pending," and this count went up by 1 each time I tried creating a new > process. Sadly, I forgot to snapshot that screen, so I can't quote > the rest of that entry. I remember it said VDIR and type > something+VOBJECT, but I don't remember what the something was. > Unable to retrieve my system, I finally typed "panic" in the debugger > so at least the disks would sync. Other than "giving up on 4 > buffers," that went fine. >=20 > Any ideas what this is, and whether it's a bug? I thought idprio was > harmless as far as affecting other processes. No, it's known to cause deadlocks. I don't know if this is still the case on 6.0. Kris --lCAWRPmW1mITcIfM Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDf5RvWry0BWjoQKURAjBfAJ4sA/PsewG6yz/kYQ98QPf56T5xIgCgltLg dXd8VPmXpDh3sj7nkRhhiKM= =hlem -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --lCAWRPmW1mITcIfM--
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