Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 15:21:04 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Gerard Meijer <gmeijer@palmweb.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: server crash "panic: spin lock held too long" Message-ID: <20050320232104.GA18079@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <016201c52d23$b18e5e90$9600000a@guus> References: <016201c52d23$b18e5e90$9600000a@guus>
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--2fHTh5uZTiUOsy+g Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 09:06:17AM +0100, Gerard Meijer wrote: > Hi I have a P4 2.6Mhz running on FreeBSD 5.3. >=20 > Every few days the server crashes. When it crashes it says: >=20 > spin lock sleepq chain held by 0xc1eb7640 for > 5 seconds > panic: spin lock held too long > Uptime: 2d3h56m36s >=20 > Anybody any idea how I can fix this? See the chapter on kernel debugging in the developers' handbook to learn how to obtain the necessary information for a developer to begin investigating this. Also make sure you're running with all of the 5.3 errata patches, and consider updating to 5.4-PRERELEASE to see if it's fixed already. Kris --2fHTh5uZTiUOsy+g Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCPgVgWry0BWjoQKURAmdUAKDQkpXr46YWjY05EsWZJ0+WQjerFwCfZBK0 Frmeho2j7uhvCjzt7gV/xGA= =fSU0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --2fHTh5uZTiUOsy+g--
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