From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 7 08:25:11 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8677016A4CE for ; Sat, 7 Feb 2004 08:25:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from x86unx3.comp.nus.edu.sg (x86unx3.comp.nus.edu.sg [137.132.90.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADB2F43D1D for ; Sat, 7 Feb 2004 08:25:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rinadewi@comp.nus.edu.sg) Received: from e500a.comp.nus.edu.sg (e500a.comp.nus.edu.sg [137.132.90.23]) AAA04813 for ; Sun, 8 Feb 2004 00:25:08 +0800 (GMT-8) Received: from sf3.comp.nus.edu.sg(137.132.90.55) by e500a.comp.nus.edu.sg via csmap id 30119; Sun, 08 Feb 2004 00:25:08 +0800 (SGT) Received: from localhost (rinadewi@localhost) by sf3.comp.nus.edu.sg (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA14751 for ; Sun, 8 Feb 2004 00:25:07 +0800 (GMT-8) Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2004 00:25:06 +0800 (GMT-8) From: Rina To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: about process lockup (state 'getblk') X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2004 16:25:11 -0000 i saw recently a few posts about some processes freezing (getting into state 'getblk' for a long time) while scanning some large directories. i'm facing the same problem on a 4.6-release while scanning using 'find' and piping to remove large, nested directories on a local filesystem. it got into the state 'biowr' after half hour or so. there's no error message in dmesg nor /var/log/messages. is this one of the known issues? can anybody advise on how to investigate where the freezing/lock up may occur, or what the most feasible workaround is? thanks. Rina