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Date:      Sun, 02 May 2010 14:31:53 +0300
From:      Mikolaj Golub <to.my.trociny@gmail.com>
To:        Roar Pettersen <roar.pettersen@uib.no>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE & mpd -> system freeze
Message-ID:  <86k4rmtu8m.fsf@kopusha.onet>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.GSO.2.00.1005021225180.25765@alf.uib.no> (Roar Pettersen's message of "Sun\, 2 May 2010 12\:46\:19 %2B0200 \(CEST\)")
References:  <alpine.GSO.2.00.1005021225180.25765@alf.uib.no>

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On Sun, 2 May 2010 12:46:19 +0200 (CEST) Roar Pettersen wrote:

> Upgraded some servers from 7.2-stabel to 8.0-stable early april and
> since then I have seen stability problems with 8.0 servers which use
> mpd (vpn).
> I have tried several mpd version (5.5, 5.3 and 5.1), but the system freeze
> within 6 hours or 3-5 days. Early in april we got typical watchdog timeout
> error message just before the system freeze, but now we don't get any
> error message.

Could you try disabling flowtable to see if it helps?

sysctl -w net.inet.flowtable.enable=0

> Sometimes we also see that the mpd process goes into a none killeable
> stauts, and then when I execute a "shutdown -r" the system hang with
> this message :
>
> stopping mpd5
> Waiting for PIDS : 114830 second watchdog timeout expired. Shutdown terminated.
> Apr 29 21:04:52 init : some process would not die; ps axl advised
> Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process 'vnlru' to stop...

Could you provide the output of

procstat -kk <mpdpid>

when this happens again or even better:

procstat -akk

-- 
Mikolaj Golub



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