Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 16:37:07 -0500 (EST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@ki.net> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Locks. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960315163418.2202A-100000@ki.net> In-Reply-To: <199603152047.VAA02384@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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On Fri, 15 Mar 1996, J Wunsch wrote: > As Andrew Foster wrote: > > > This machine will either randomly reboot or lock up. When it locks I can > > switch vty's but not login (no password comes up), I can open some ports > > that inetd isn't control of, but I can't telnet in or anything. > > This usually means the processes aren't context-switching anymore. It > is often related to disk hangs. > *raises hand* are there any known problems with the current drivers in -stable that would cause a disk hang? I'm noticing the same problem on a system with 4 drives, each drive with a 32meg or larger SWAP partition on it... that is being *heavily* used (ie. I'm into about 38-60Meg of swap on that machine) She usually takes about 2+ days before it hangs though, the last time it did it 1:40hrs ago, you could hear the disk thrashing away, I presume on news unbatching, and then it just hung. Marc G. Fournier | POP Mail Telnet Acct DNS Hosting System | WWW Services Database Services | Knowledge, Administrator | | Information and scrappy@ki.net | WWW: http://www.ki.net | Communications, Inc
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