From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed Sep 6 4:20: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDF5C37B42C for ; Wed, 6 Sep 2000 04:20:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) id EAA95836; Wed, 6 Sep 2000 04:20:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 04:20:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200009061120.EAA95836@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Sheldon Hearn Subject: Re: kern/21009: /etc/security make the system hangup Reply-To: Sheldon Hearn Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR kern/21009; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Sheldon Hearn To: Masachika ISHIZUKA Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern/21009: /etc/security make the system hangup Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 13:15:33 +0200 On Wed, 06 Sep 2000 02:50:04 MST, Masachika ISHIZUKA wrote: > There are 4 machines with hangup. The following is the output of > 'df -ki' command. All machines are 4.1-RELEASE. Most of directories > and files on the disk mounted on /www have about 5000 hard links, > so there are more than 6,000,000 links, files or directories on each > /www disks. > The running time for /etc/security is about 1.5 or 2.5 hours on > Pentium III/600 or Pentium II/400. The ccd0c and /dev/vinum/www > are two 16GB or 20GB UDMA33 ata drives with striped. Could you stick a debugging kernel on one of those boxes and use DDB or remote kgdb to figure out what the kernel's stuck in? There are just two many variables here. Instructions that you might find helpful are available at: http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/kerneldebug.html Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message