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Date:      Mon, 23 Apr 2007 14:39:12 +0300
From:      Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
To:        Adrian Wontroba <aw1@stade.co.uk>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 6.2-STABLE deadlock?
Message-ID:  <20070423113912.GE2052@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>
In-Reply-To: <20070423025631.GA33256@steerpike.hanley.stade.co.uk>
References:  <20070313140848.GA89182@steerpike.hanley.stade.co.uk> <20070423025631.GA33256@steerpike.hanley.stade.co.uk>

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On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 03:56:32AM +0100, Adrian Wontroba wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 02:08:48PM +0000, Adrian Wontroba wrote:
> > At work, amoungst my stable of old computers running FreeBSD, I have a
> > Fujitsu M800 - a 4 Zeon SMP processor with 4 GB of memory. This
> > primarily runs Nagios and a small and lightly used MySQL database, along
> > with a few inbound FTP transfers per minute. It has a Mylex card based
> > disc subsystem, ruling out crash dumps.
> >=20
> > At some point during 5.5-STABLE this machine started to occasionally ha=
ng ...
>=20
> Another 6-STABLE (cvsupped on 27/03/07) example, with diagnostics taken
> rather sooner after the hang.  Processes with wmesg=3Dufs feature often in
> the ps output.
>=20
> http://www.stade.co.uk/crash1/

I would suspect the mlx controller. There is several processes (for instanc=
e,
988, 50918) waiting for completion of block read, and processes in the "ufs"
states are the result of the lock cascade, IMHO.

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