Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 18:58:30 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@FreeBSD.ORG> To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Cc: dmaddox@scsn.net, plm@xs4all.nl, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: -current locks my machine frequently Message-ID: <199801312358.SAA02250@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <199801312344.KAA00674@word.smith.net.au> from Mike Smith at "Feb 1, 98 10:14:05 am"
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Mike Smith said: > > > > John Dyson made some changes last night that I had hoped would finally > > fix the problem, but I just had the machine lock up again a few minutes > > ago. It always seems to occur when X is running (usually when Netscape > > starts to swap heavily). > > Odd; I'm running -current on a very memory-short laptop, under X, using > netscape/emacs/exmh, and it thrashes pretty solidly but certainly > hasn't fallen over yet. > > I *have* noticed these odd pauses where all filesystem activity seems > to block for a few seconds (maybe 10 or so). It's not disk spin-up > either. This includes procfs activity, so I can't use ps to find out > what's going on. > I'm going to take some more stabs at the problem. Donald, if you haven't send me a copy of your config, would you please do so. Also, the dmesg output could also be helpful... If you have already sent it, let me know, and I'll hunt around for it (my email volume is huge, and things get buried easily.) -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@freebsd.org | it just makes you look stupid, jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig.
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