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Date:      Thu, 12 Sep 2013 09:31:17 -0700
From:      hiren panchasara <hiren.panchasara@gmail.com>
To:        Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Intermittent hangs in vmem_periodic()
Message-ID:  <CALCpEUHp81UCpFRfytd03iOrY1UT4M5ttMWkGuywVLr9sT6e7Q@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CALCpEUGiAh_t-VPkQnU0wyUpEy7mqrLFfSNv_b5pdMg8ednAMw@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <CALCpEUGherrJbmW9PBO7kSQk1Gj4zigGvvsRiyAwjk-USOXTUw@mail.gmail.com> <20130912092737.GC4574@FreeBSD.org> <CALCpEUGiAh_t-VPkQnU0wyUpEy7mqrLFfSNv_b5pdMg8ednAMw@mail.gmail.com>

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On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 8:16 AM, hiren panchasara <
hiren.panchasara@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Sep 12, 2013 2:27 AM, "Gleb Smirnoff" <glebius@freebsd.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 09:51:16PM -0700, hiren panchasara wrote:
> > h> I am seeing really weird system freeze for 2-3 seconds every minute
> or so.
> > h>
> > h> % uname -a
> > h> FreeBSD flymockour-l7.corp.yahoo.com 10.0-CURRENT FreeBSD
> 10.0-CURRENT #2
> > h> r255423M: Mon Sep  9 12:29:22 PDT 2013     root@flymocko
> > h> ur-l7.corp.yahoo.com:/usr/obj/usr/home/hirenp/head/sys/GENERIC  amd64
> > h>
> > h> Simple comands like "man top" hangs and this is what I see in ctrl+T
> > h>  % man top
> > h>  load: 1.59  cmd: zcat 76574 [*kmem arena] 2.16r 0.00u 1.82s 16% 2000k
> > h>  load: 1.70  cmd: zcat 76574 [*kmem arena] 7.19r 0.00u 1.82s 7% 2000k
> > h>  load: 1.89  cmd: zcat 76574 [*kmem arena] 12.58r 0.00u 1.82s 3% 2000k
> > h>  load: 1.90  cmd: zcat 76574 [*kmem arena] 14.58r 0.00u 1.82s 2% 2000k
> > h>
> > h> I see similar things while trying to "exit" a terminal window.
> > h>
> > h> I see following in pmcstat:
> > h>
> > h> PMC: [INSTR_RETIRED_ANY] Samples: 117647 (100.0%) , 6885 unresolved
> > h>
> > h> %SAMP CALLTREE
> > h>  75.9 fork_exit@kernel taskqueue_thread_loop taskqueue_run_locked
> > h> vmem_periodic(75.9%)
> >
> > You probably got DIAGNOSTIC in your kernel config.
>
> Yes. And I've always had that. Never been a problem before. What has
> changed?
>

Thanks Gleb.
I've removed DIAGNOSTIC and the problem is gone now.

But the way system was behaving with DIAGNOSTIC, its unusable.

Thanks again,
Hiren



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