Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 14:47:01 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: spork <spork@super-g.com> Cc: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, noc@inch.com Subject: Re: high load, nothing happening? (LONG) Message-ID: <200001182247.OAA27487@apollo.backplane.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.00.10001181728250.899-100000@super-g.inch.com>
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:> CTRL-ALT-ESC, and at the prompt type in 'panic'. You'll need DDB
:> compiled into the kernel, and crashdumps enabled.
:
:By now, you should know my next question... What am I looking at? I
:built a kernel with "config -g" and the debugger option and made it panic
:while sitting at a load of 3.0... Following the handbook instructions, I
:see this:
A backtrace is not likely to be useful, but a 'ps' (from DDB) may be.
It might also be useful to leave 'systat -vm 1' and 'vmstat 1' running
to see if the system is doing any paging or other significant work at
the time of the high load.
-Matt
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