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Date:      Sat, 15 Jul 2006 00:27:40 -0300 (ADT)
From:      User Freebsd <freebsd@hub.org>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Michel Talon <talon@lpthe.jussieu.fr>, Francisco Reyes <lists@stringsutils.com>
Subject:   Re: vm_map.c lock up (Was: Re: NFS Locking Issue)
Message-ID:  <20060715002634.E1799@ganymede.hub.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060715000351.U1799@ganymede.hub.org>
References:  <E1FxzUU-000MMw-5m@cs1.cs.huji.ac.il> <20060705100403.Y80381@fledge.watson.org> <cone.1152136419.991036.72616.1000@zoraida.natserv.net> <20060705234514.I70011@fledge.watson.org> <20060715000351.U1799@ganymede.hub.org>

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On Sat, 15 Jul 2006, User Freebsd wrote:

> On Wed, 5 Jul 2006, Robert Watson wrote:
>
>> If you can get into DDB when the hang has occurred, output via serial 
>> console for the following commands would be very helpful:
>> 
>> show pcpu
>> show allpcpu
>> ps
>> trace
>> traceall
>> show locks
>> show alllocks
>> show uma
>> show malloc
>> show lockedvnods
>
> 'k, after 16 days uptime, the server that I got all the debugging turned on 
> for finally hung up solid ... I was able to break into DDB over the serial 
> link, and have run all of the above on it ... and the output is attached ...
>
> One thing to note is that the ps listing is not complete ... there are >6k 
> processes running at the time, and I don't know how to get rid of the 
> '--more--' prompt :(  After 1k processes, I just hit 'q' and went onto the 
> other commands ...
>
> Also, traceall gave me a 'No such command' error ... now that I think about 
> it, my luck, it was supposed to be 'trace all'?
>
> If this doesn't provide enough information, please let me know what else I 
> should do the next time through, besides the above commands ...
>
> Oh, and how do you get DDB to 'dump core' in 6.x?  Back in 4.x days, I'd just 
> do 'panic' (maybe twice) at the DDB prompt, but that didn't work with 6.x ... 
> it just gave me a stacktrace and then the DDB> prompt both times ...

Quick appendum ... the kernel on this server is from June 28th of this 
year ...

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