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From: Thor Clark <thor@tab012.tabula.com>
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Cc: David Greenman <davidg@root.com>
Subject: Re: system hangs? after resetting rtq_reallyold 
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Thanks for the initial response - I'm completely stuck on this one.
my info again
running 2.1 release, 
pretty generic kernel (recompiled with 'options "NMBCLUSTER=2000"'

the problem: machine becomes nonresponsive, generally after a few days 
(sometimes hours) of mail and http activity - I can force the breakdown by 
sending a big batch of mail pretty quickly 
-when it becomes nonresponsive, it will not respond to any ftp, telnet, 
 http requests
-from the console login, it will echo text, but will not respond with a 
 password prompt
-some background jobs continue to run, but cron jobs don't 
 occur 
-no kernel messages are logged, and no panic occurs


Am I out of space for new processes, or out of mbufs, or?
only the Shadow knows...
(sorry,it's a bit late here)
This started to happen after a jump in http activity - I've rechecked to 
make sure that the new kernel was recompiled correctly and installed,
as the mbuf solution seemed perfect, but the new kernel looks fine.

Extremely grateful for any help or pointers - tearing my hair out at this 
point...
-Thor Clark