Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 20:08:43 +0000 From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: system hangs when removing files and running sysctl Message-ID: <20030217200843.GA754@fourtytwo.gamesoc>
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I'm running 5.0-p1, cvsupped yesterday. I've just gone back to
5.0-RELEASE from -CURRENT because I found applications had started
crashing quite a lot. I rebuilt the world, kernel and all my applications. Because
I could do with the disk space back from the src, doc and ports
directories, I started to delete them - from /usr, a UFS1 partition with
softupdates enabled. When 'rm -rvf ports' was
about half-way through completing, I decided to take a look at the
file-system statistics. sysctl -a got to kern.clockrate:
{hz=1000,tick=1000,profhz=1024,stathz=128} and then just hung. There
was no other screen output and the keyboard stopped working. Also, all
the disk activity stopped. I hard reset the machine and fsck ran -
freeing 44621 files and directories! I managed to repeat this again - by starting to remove the rest of the ports dir before running sysctl -a. There are no errors in the logs before the system crashes.
Bruce Cran
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