Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 23:15:08 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6-STABLE freezing up ... Message-ID: <20060623041508.GC95588@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20060623004037.T1114@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20060622170836.Q1114@ganymede.hub.org> <20060623032231.GE5115@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <20060623004037.T1114@ganymede.hub.org>
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In the last episode (Jun 23), Marc G. Fournier said: > On Fri, 23 Jun 2006, Konstantin Belousov wrote: > >What exactly happens ? Are you sure that the _system_ freezes ? > >Could it be that only your application has some troubles ? > > Nothing works ... I can ping the server, and that is about it ... the > last time it happened, I had a vmstat process running in an xterm, to > see, and I suspect that there is a process (or two) starting up > hitting the hard drive extra hard, as the drives go from an ~5 busy, > to 45 busy, and stays like that ... the fun part is figuring out what > is killing the drives ;( Hit "m" in top to switch to I/O mode, and enter "ototal" to sort by I/O instead of CPU. As long as whatever's doing the I/O lasts longer than top's refresh interval it should show up. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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