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Date:      Wed, 30 Jun 2004 12:28:43 +0200
From:      Michael Ranner <mranner@inode.at>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ``top'' and other process issues on 4.10-R
Message-ID:  <200406301228.43775.mranner@inode.at>
In-Reply-To: <20040630093013.GA68030@e-Gitt.NET>
References:  <00d801c45df9$df664d40$6745a8c0@MESE> <200406301140.46375.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20040630093013.GA68030@e-Gitt.NET>

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Am Mittwoch, 30. Juni 2004 11:30 schrieb Oliver Brandmueller:
> Hi.
>
> On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 11:40:46AM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> > On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 10:54, Doug White wrote:
> > > On the plus side, it hasn't done it to me on -stable in a long time,
> > > and never on -current :)
> >
> > I've seen it happen on -current :(
> > Pretty rare though.
>
> Confirmed. I cannot consistently reproduce it, but it seems to happen
> under load. The machine does very I/O bound things and uses a lot of
> pipes, not so much CPU load, when it happens.
>
> - Oliver

I am seeing this problem in several 4.x releases, not only the last 6 months, 
and also in current. This servers running file services (NFS, Samba) with 
postfix, cyrus and amavisd plus spamassassin on a single host. So this might 
happen under high I/O.

Regards

-- 
/\/\ichael Ranner

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