Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 16:43:35 -0700 From: Sean McNeil <sean@mcneil.com> To: Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: consistent hard lockup with recent kernels Message-ID: <1089935015.2558.3.camel@server.mcneil.com> In-Reply-To: <20040715212031.GB1626@green.homeunix.org> References: <1089924060.1074.7.camel@server.mcneil.com> <20040715212031.GB1626@green.homeunix.org>
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On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 14:20, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: > On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 01:41:00PM -0700, Sean McNeil wrote: > > I get a very repeatable hard freeze of the system when I use firefox and > > attempt to download a large iso image. I've been trying to get a livecd > > image from a gentoo.org mirror (needed for something else, I'm a FreeBSD > > fan, honest!!) ;) > > > > I suppose this is related to the preemption issues, but don't have > > anything to show for it except my dmegs. I can't access the system at > > all to see why it is happening. > > Can you run it in an X session on another host, and be at the console > (for DDB+KDB access)? Can you start it and switch to the console, for > same reason, before it locks up? I attempted the former, but apparantly the lockup is because of interaction with other processes. Perhaps involving surfing another web site as a download is in progress. I cannot try the X session on another host as yet, but I will. Switching to the console and not doing anything else stressful on the machine allowed for the download to complete without a lockup. All times it has locked up I was doing other things while the download was in progress. However, no lockup has occurred without the download happening. Sean
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