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Date:      Tue, 17 May 2011 15:38:33 +0300
From:      Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com>
Cc:        Charles Sprickman <spork@bway.net>, stable@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: 8.1R possible zfs snapshot livelock?
Message-ID:  <4DD26C49.4010108@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20110517122323.GA49650@icarus.home.lan>
References:  <alpine.OSX.2.00.1105170120510.1983@hotlap.nat.fasttrackmonkey.com> <20110517073029.GA44359@icarus.home.lan> <4DD25264.8040305@FreeBSD.org> <20110517112952.GA48610@icarus.home.lan> <4DD2624A.9080708@FreeBSD.org> <20110517122323.GA49650@icarus.home.lan>

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on 17/05/2011 15:23 Jeremy Chadwick said the following:
> So for Charles' situation, the next time it happens what would be useful
> for him to provide?  The best I could come up with was to induce doadump
> then reboot to get the system up/working again, and then use kgdb
> after-the-fact.

This is one of the best things to do, if possible.
In this case all the potentially useful info would be preserved.

Less drastic approach to hanged I/O debugging is to find out where
processes/threads are actually stuck.  E.g. using procstat -kk.

-- 
Andriy Gapon



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