From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 22 19:51:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4485414FBF for ; Sat, 22 Jan 2000 19:51:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA05665; Sat, 22 Jan 2000 22:55:57 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 22:55:56 -0500 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Sean Heber Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help! File systems stop or something! Message-ID: <20000122225556.I5211@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Reply-To: cjclark@home.com References: <948530728_PM_BeOS.sean@bebits.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <948530728_PM_BeOS.sean@bebits.com>; from sean@bebits.com on Sat, Jan 22, 2000 at 02:45:28AM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Jan 22, 2000 at 02:45:28AM -0600, Sean Heber wrote: [snip] > Anyway, what the heck is the problem? Any ideas at all? A deadlock > case or > race condition or something else? Running out of allowed open files? > This > worries me a lot. I've had the box running fine for a couple weeks now > and > the day before shipping it acts wacko. It really sounds like a hardware problem to me. I was having SCSI hardware errors a few weeks back, and I could get similar problems. However, the SCSI system was rather verbose about the problems and things would usually come back to life. More frequently, I see similar symptoms when I have hard-mounted NFS failures. Still, those eventually produce some messages but do not unhang. My best guess is a hardware problem with HDDs, but I those ususally do produce error massges (both IDE and SCSI). Possibly only mount specific drives at a time and see if a specific volume is always around when there is trouble? -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message