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Date:      Fri, 1 Nov 1996 09:11:02 -0600 (CST)
From:      Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
To:        karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se (Mikael Karpberg)
Cc:        jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, greg@uswest.net, freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org, ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com
Subject:   Re: Another data point in the daily panics...
Message-ID:  <199611011511.JAA00196@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
In-Reply-To: <199611011344.OAA08663@ocean.campus.luth.se> from "Mikael Karpberg" at Nov 1, 96 02:44:17 pm

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> Then again, I know a friends 2.1.5 machine rebooted after running 30
> seconds of "crashme". Firing up _40_ at boot time, just for kicks,
> must mean he can get a lot more out of Linux's vm/fs system then we can
> get out of FreeBSD's, when it comes to stablilty. If you want to stress
> the machine, and shake out bugs, "crashme" seems quite a nice stresser
> for the system, doing a lot of mean stuff, but nothing illegal (which
> should not be possible anyway, or the system is not very safe, or?) as
> far as I know. I know we got HUGE amounts of "sig 10 recieved" when
> running crashme. So, if crashme is not reading longs out of alignment,
> or so, then there is a problem in the system somewhere.
> 
> Anyone tried to fire up 40 crashmes and wait? Should produce nice output
> for debugging a stressed system, no?

daily-planet2# uptime
 9:06AM  up 18 mins, 2 users, load averages: 100.51, 86.35, 49.57
daily-planet2# ps agxuww|grep crashme|wc
     201    3307   20448
daily-planet2# top
load averages: 101.47, 91.55, 56.48                                    09:08:56
425 processes: 102 running, 322 sleeping, 1 stopped
Cpu states: 66.7% user,  0.0% nice, 33.3% system,  0.0% interrupt,  0.0% idle
Mem: 41M Active, 2256K Inact, 8948K Wired, 4920K Cache, 2880K Buf, 4104K Free
Swap: 131M Total, 18M Used, 113M Free, 14% Inuse

  PID USERNAME PRI NICE  SIZE   RES STATE    TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
 5384 jgreco    82    0  164K  428K RUN      0:00  1.21%  1.18% crashme
 5444 jgreco    82    0  164K  428K RUN      0:00  1.18%  1.14% crashme
 5409 jgreco    82    0  164K  428K RUN      0:00  1.18%  1.14% crashme
 5435 jgreco    83    0  164K  428K RUN      0:00  1.14%  1.11% crashme
 5465 jgreco    82    0  164K  428K RUN      0:00  1.15%  1.11% crashme
 5443 jgreco    82    0  164K  428K RUN      0:00  1.10%  1.07% crashme
 5442 jgreco    82    0  164K  428K RUN      0:00  1.10%  1.07% crashme
 5431 jgreco    82    0  164K  428K RUN      0:00  1.06%  1.03% crashme
 5491 jgreco    82    0  164K  428K RUN      0:00  1.08%  1.03% crashme
 5164 jgreco    81    0  164K  428K RUN      0:01  1.03%  1.03% crashme
 5470 jgreco    81    0  164K  428K RUN      0:00  0.99%  0.95% crashme
 5415 jgreco    81    0  164K  428K RUN      0:00  0.98%  0.95% crashme
 5475 jgreco    81    0  164K  428K RUN      0:00  0.99%  0.95% crashme
 5416 jgreco    81    0  164K  428K RUN      0:00  0.94%  0.92% crashme
 5485 jgreco    81    0  164K  428K RUN      0:00  0.95%  0.92% crashme
 5380 jgreco    81    0  164K  428K RUN      0:00  0.94%  0.92% crashme
 5397 jgreco    81    0  164K  428K RUN      0:00  0.94%  0.92% crashme

Unfortunately this fills the 64MB of RAM on the machine.  I do not think
I have ever seen a FreeBSD machine with so many runnable processes.

I will let it run for a while and see if anything interesting happens. 

... JG



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