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Date:      Sun, 19 Oct 2008 11:39:02 +0300
From:      Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
To:        Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@freebsd.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: System hanging during dump
Message-ID:  <20081019083902.GP7782@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>
In-Reply-To: <20081019032104.GB25796@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
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On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 02:21:04PM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On 2008-Oct-15 21:37:36 +0100, Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> >Peter, there was a bug causing dump to hang (completely unrelated to=20
> >UFS2 snapshot generation) merged to RELENG_7 a month or so ago.  Can you=
=20
> >try updating?
>=20
> Well, dump wasn't hanging, rather it was hanging the rest of the system.
> In any case, I have upgraded to a recent -stable and am no longer able
> to reproduce the problem.
>=20
> I have built myself a looping 'ps -axl' which should let me gather more
> information if it does re-appear.  (In the process, I've found that ps
> leaks memory, though that's not a problem until you wrap it in a loop).

What memory ? Kernel one ? How did you noted this ? Could you add
vmstat -z and vmstat -m to the loop and watch what allocation grows ?


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