From owner-freebsd-current Fri Feb 27 22:38:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA00198 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 27 Feb 1998 22:38:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA00181 for ; Fri, 27 Feb 1998 22:38:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA05130; Sat, 28 Feb 1998 17:08:10 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id RAA00464; Sat, 28 Feb 1998 17:08:10 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980228170809.59761@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sat, 28 Feb 1998 17:08:09 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Terry Lambert Cc: FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VM: Process hangs sleeping on vmpfw References: <19980228155309.44211@freebie.lemis.com> <199802280623.XAA21476@usr05.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: <199802280623.XAA21476@usr05.primenet.com>; from Terry Lambert on Sat, Feb 28, 1998 at 06:23:38AM +0000 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 28 February 1998 at 6:23:38 +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: >> I've just discovered a process sleeping on vmpfw (in vm_fault). It's >> been there for several minutes already, so I don't think it's going to >> wake up: >> >> 1004 15301 250 0 -22 0 16872 432 vmpfw D v0 0:28.13 /opt/netscape/netscape >> >> The machine is still running, though I can take a dump if anybody >> (John?) wants to look at it. This is running a -CURRENT supped about >> a week ago. Here's the ID of vm_fault.c: >> >> * $Id: vm_fault.c,v 1.80 1998/02/09 06:11:23 eivind Exp $ >> >> If anybody wants access to the system, please let me know. Otherwise >> I'll take it down some time tomorrow and take a dump. > > Check your dmesg/messages log for the following message: > > vnode_pager: *** WARNING *** stale FS code in system. Unfortunately, the machine froze about 30 minutes ago, and I wasn't able to get a dump. dmesg is also gone, of course. There was no such message in any of the /var/log/messages. If the VM code is still being modified, let's hope that the changes fix the cause of this one as well. Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message