I'm having strange problems with -current on a laptop with 64mb of
memory. Periodically "things go strange" [tm].
Because of the lack of memory I'm using a fair amount of swap.
Everything runs smoothly up until a point, which seems to depend upon
not running too many large processes for too long. Then the file system
grinds to a halt for seconds at a time. Some processes run, and others
just hang.
Here's a snapshot from top:
last pid: 1861; load averages: 1.58, 1.63, 1.26 up 0+00:43:56 09:58:09
39 processes: 1 running, 38 sleeping
CPU states: 1.2% user, 0.0% nice, 8.1% system, 5.8% interrupt, 84.9% idle
Mem: 14M Active, 2712K Inact, 21M Wired, 1460K Cache, 14M Buf, 20M Free
Swap: 512M Total, 16M Used, 496M Free, 3% Inuse
PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND
594 root 96 0 23300K 10784K select 0:12 0.00% 0.00% XFree86
1731 joe -8 0 6056K 3352K biowr 0:14 5.08% 5.08% vim
691 joe 96 0 4092K 1804K select 0:02 0.00% 0.00% wmaker
1719 joe 8 0 3340K 1864K wait 0:00 0.00% 0.00% mutt
658 root 8 0 2964K 908K wait 0:00 0.00% 0.00% xdm
591 root 20 0 2800K 632K pause 0:00 0.00% 0.00% xdm
279 root 96 0 2364K 480K select 0:00 0.00% 0.00% sshd
724 joe 8 0 2324K 740K nanslp 0:01 0.00% 0.00% wmCalClock
1209 joe 96 0 2292K 1168K select 0:01 0.10% 0.10% rxvt
1716 joe 96 0 2256K 1348K select 0:00 0.00% 0.00% rxvt
1214 joe 20 0 2088K 1188K pause 0:00 0.00% 0.00% zsh
725 joe 8 0 2060K 824K nanslp 0:10 0.00% 0.00% wmtop
1401 joe 96 0 2028K 888K RUN 0:02 0.00% 0.00% top
1812 joe -12 0 2012K 768K inode 0:01 0.00% 0.00% rxvt
700 joe 8 0 1988K 840K nanslp 0:00 0.00% 0.00% xautolock
701 joe 96 0 1828K 492K select 0:00 0.00% 0.00% ssh-agent
253 root 84 -12 1388K 564K select 0:00 0.00% 0.00% ntpd
1779 root 96 0 1232K 760K select 0:00 0.00% 0.00% local
1777 postfix 96 0 1228K 820K select 0:00 0.00% 0.00% smtpd
649 postfix 96 0 1204K 656K select 0:01 0.00% 0.00% qmgr
1778 postfix 96 0 1196K 760K select 0:00 0.00% 0.00% cleanup
271 root 96 0 1184K 416K select 0:00 0.00% 0.00% inetd
1700 postfix 96 0 1152K 676K select 0:00 0.00% 0.00% trivial-rewri
648 root 96 0 1144K 496K select 0:00 0.00% 0.00% pickup
647 root 96 0 1120K 528K select 0:00 0.00% 0.00% master
273 root 8 0 1108K 548K nanslp 0:00 0.00% 0.00% cron
276 root 96 0 1076K 388K select 0:00 0.00% 0.00% lpd
583 root 5 0 1064K 396K ttyin 0:00 0.00% 0.00% getty
588 root 5 0 1064K 396K ttyin 0:00 0.00% 0.00% getty
585 root 5 0 1064K 396K ttyin 0:00 0.00% 0.00% getty
590 root 5 0 1064K 396K ttyin 0:00 0.00% 0.00% getty
586 root 5 0 1064K 396K ttyin 0:00 0.00% 0.00% getty
587 root 5 0 1064K 396K ttyin 0:00 0.00% 0.00% getty
589 root 5 0 1064K 396K ttyin 0:00 0.00% 0.00% getty
584 root 5 0 1064K 396K ttyin 0:00 0.00% 0.00% getty
243 root 96 0 1060K 492K select 0:00 0.00% 0.00% syslogd
341 root 96 0 1024K 388K select 0:00 0.00% 0.00% usbd
397 root 96 0 1020K 400K select 0:03 0.00% 0.00% moused
1730 joe 8 0 816K 156K wait 0:00 0.00% 0.00% sh
The vim process (pid=1731) was waiting in biowr for about a minute when
I took this snapshot. I'd ZZ'd it, but instead of writing it's file, it
just blocked instead.
Interestingly take a look at the disk i/o irqs:
2 users Load 1.21 1.49 1.24 Aug 20 09:59
Mem:KB REAL VIRTUAL VN PAGER SWAP PAGER
Tot Share Tot Share Free in out in out
Act 8368 1648 29620 2824 21312 count
All 40472 1952 2567408 4908 pages
Interrupts
Proc:r p d s w Csw Trp Sys Int Sof Flt cow 1966 total
2 10 7194 15 1038 2031 13 17 21612 wire stray irq0
14404 act stray irq6
7.5%Sys 5.3%Intr 1.2%User 0.0%Nice 86.0%Idl 2984 inact acpi0 irq9
| | | | | | | | | | 1472 cache 1697 ata0 irq14
====++> 19840 free ata1 irq15
daefr uhci0 irq5
Namei Name-cache Dir-cache prcfr 1 pcm0 irq5
Calls hits % hits % react atkbd0 irq
504 504 100 pdwak 40 psm0 irq12
zfod pdpgs 100 clk irq0
Disks ad0 acd0 fd0 ofod intrn 128 rtc irq8
KB/t 5.00 0.00 0.00 %slo-z 14416 buf
tps 1699 0 0 tfree 43 dirtybuf
MB/s 8.30 0.00 0.00 5837 desiredvnodes
% busy 97 0 0 2347 numvnodes
1624 freevnodes
Over 1000 interrupts a second for ata0? What could be causing that?
Interesting enough a cvsup started (under cron) and then the irq's for
ata0 dropped to 300. When I killed it they raised again.
Can anyone suggest anything that I could try?
Thanks,
Joe
p.s: here's my dmesg from running, and getting away with, doing a
/sbin/reboot. Usually I have to power cycle the machine:
ACPI debug layer 0x0 debug level 0x0
Copyright (c) 1992-2001 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #15: Sun Aug 19 01:00:40 BST 2001
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENIUS
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz
Timecounter "TSC" frequency 497838463 Hz
CPU: Pentium III/Pentium III Xeon/Celeron (497.84-MHz 686-class CPU)
Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x681 Stepping = 1
Features=0x383f9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE>
real memory = 67043328 (65472K bytes)
avail memory = 60088320 (58680K bytes)
Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc046a000.
Preloaded elf module "agp.ko" at 0xc046a09c.
Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled
VESA: v2.0, 8128k memory, flags:0x0, mode table:0xc03cef82 (1000022)
VESA: ATI MACH64
Using $PIR table, 7 entries at 0xc00fdf50
acpi0: <DELL I 5000 > on motherboard
Timecounter "ACPI" frequency 3579545 Hz
acpi_cpu0: <CPU> on acpi0
acpi_tz0: <thermal zone> on acpi0
acpi_lid0: <Control Method Lid Switch> on acpi0
acpi_cmbat0: <Control method Battery> on acpi0
acpi_cmbat1: <Control method Battery> on acpi0
acpi_acad0: <AC adapter> on acpi0
acpi_pcib0: <Host-PCI bridge> on acpi0
pci0: <PCI bus> on acpi_pcib0
agp0: <Intel 82443BX (440 BX) host to PCI bridge> mem 0xe0000000-0xe3ffffff at device
0.0 on pci0
pcib1: <PCI-PCI bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0
pci1: <PCI bus> on pcib1
pci1: <display, VGA> at 0.0 (no driver attached)
acpi_pcib0: matched entry for 0.4.INTA (source \\_SB_.PCI0.PX40.LNKA)
acpi_pcib0: device is routed to IRQ 11
pcic0: <TI PCI-1225 PCI-CardBus Bridge> irq 11 at device 4.0 on pci0
pcic0: PCI Memory allocated: 0x44000000
pcic0: TI12XX PCI Config Reg: [ring enable][speaker enable][pwr save][pci only]
pccard0: <PC Card bus (classic)> on pcic0
acpi_pcib0: matched entry for 0.4.INTA (source \\_SB_.PCI0.PX40.LNKA)
acpi_pcib0: device is routed to IRQ 11
pcic1: <TI PCI-1225 PCI-CardBus Bridge> irq 11 at device 4.1 on pci0
pcic1: PCI Memory allocated: 0x44001000
pcic1: TI12XX PCI Config Reg: [ring enable][speaker enable][pwr save][pci only]
pccard1: <PC Card bus (classic)> on pcic1
isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 7.0 on pci0
isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
atapci0: <Intel PIIX4 ATA33 controller> port 0x1050-0x105f at device 7.1 on pci0
ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0
ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0
uhci0: <Intel 82371AB/EB (PIIX4) USB controller> port 0x1060-0x107f irq 5 at device
7.2 on pci0
usb0: <Intel 82371AB/EB (PIIX4) USB controller> on uhci0
usb0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
aue0: LINKSYS Inc. LINKSYS USB Adapter, rev 1.10/1.01, addr 2
aue0: Ethernet address: 00:e0:98:84:c5:55
miibus0: <MII bus> on aue0
ukphy0: <Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface> on miibus0
ukphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
pci0: <bridge, PCI-unknown> at 7.3 (no driver attached)
pcm0: <ESS Technology Maestro-2E> port 0x1400-0x14ff irq 5 at device 8.0 on pci0
pci0: <simple comms> at 16.0 (no driver attached)
acpi_ec0: <embedded controller> on acpi0
acpi_button0: <Power Button> on acpi0
acpi_button1: <Sleep Button> on acpi0
acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x1008-0x100b on acpi0
npx0: <math processor> on motherboard
npx0: INT 16 interface
orm0: <Option ROM> at iomem 0xc0000-0xcffff on isa0
fdc0: <NEC 72065B or clone> at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0
fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold
fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0
atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0
kbd0 at atkbd0
psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0
psm0: model Generic PS/2 mouse, device ID 0
vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0
sio0: type 16550A
sio1 at port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa0
sio1: type 16550A
ppc0: parallel port not found.
pmtimer0 on isa0
unknown: <PNP0200> can't assign resources
unknown: <PNP0303> can't assign resources
unknown: <PNP0F13> can't assign resources
acpi_ec0: evaluation of GPE query method _QF0 failed - AE_NOT_FOUND
acpi_cpu0: set speed to 100.0%
acpi_cpu: CPU throttling enabled, 8 steps from 100% to 12.5%
ata1-slave: ata_command: timeout waiting for intr
ata1-slave: identify failed
ad0: 19077MB <HITACHI_DK23BA-20> [38760/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA33
acd0: DVD-ROM <TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-C2402> at ata1-master PIO4
Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s2a
WARNING: / was not properly dismounted
WARNING: /data was not properly dismounted
WARNING: /tmp was not properly dismounted
WARNING: /usr was not properly dismounted
/usr: lost blocks 8860 files 36
/usr: superblock summary recomputed
WARNING: /var was not properly dismounted
linprocfs registered
/dev/vmmon: Module vmmon: registered with major=200 minor=0 tag=$Name: build-570 $
/dev/vmmon: Module vmmon: initialized
aue0: promiscuous mode enabled
vmnet1: promiscuous mode enabled
Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process `bufdaemon' to stop...stopped
Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process `syncer' to stop...stopped
syncing disks... 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
giving up on 1 buffers
Uptime: 49m46s
stray irq 9
Rebooting...
ACPI debug layer 0x0 debug level 0x0
Copyright (c) 1992-2001 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #15: Sun Aug 19 01:00:40 BST 2001
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENIUS
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz
Timecounter "TSC" frequency 497837650 Hz
CPU: Pentium III/Pentium III Xeon/Celeron (497.84-MHz 686-class CPU)
Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x681 Stepping = 1
Features=0x383f9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE>
real memory = 67043328 (65472K bytes)
avail memory = 60088320 (58680K bytes)
Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc046a000.
Preloaded elf module "agp.ko" at 0xc046a09c.
Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled
VESA: v2.0, 8128k memory, flags:0x0, mode table:0xc03cef82 (1000022)
VESA: ATI MACH64
Using $PIR table, 7 entries at 0xc00fdf50
acpi0: <DELL I 5000 > on motherboard
Timecounter "ACPI" frequency 3579545 Hz
acpi_cpu0: <CPU> on acpi0
acpi_tz0: <thermal zone> on acpi0
acpi_lid0: <Control Method Lid Switch> on acpi0
acpi_cmbat0: <Control method Battery> on acpi0
acpi_cmbat1: <Control method Battery> on acpi0
acpi_acad0: <AC adapter> on acpi0
acpi_pcib0: <Host-PCI bridge> on acpi0
pci0: <PCI bus> on acpi_pcib0
agp0: <Intel 82443BX (440 BX) host to PCI bridge> mem 0xe0000000-0xe3ffffff at device
0.0 on pci0
pcib1: <PCI-PCI bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0
pci1: <PCI bus> on pcib1
pci1: <display, VGA> at 0.0 (no driver attached)
acpi_pcib0: matched entry for 0.4.INTA (source \\_SB_.PCI0.PX40.LNKA)
acpi_pcib0: device is routed to IRQ 11
pcic0: <TI PCI-1225 PCI-CardBus Bridge> mem 0x44000000-0x44000fff irq 11 at device 4.0
on pci0
pcic0: TI12XX PCI Config Reg: [ring enable][speaker enable][pwr save][pci only]
pccard0: <PC Card bus (classic)> on pcic0
acpi_pcib0: matched entry for 0.4.INTA (source \\_SB_.PCI0.PX40.LNKA)
acpi_pcib0: device is routed to IRQ 11
pcic1: <TI PCI-1225 PCI-CardBus Bridge> mem 0x44001000-0x44001fff irq 11 at device 4.1
on pci0
pcic1: TI12XX PCI Config Reg: [ring enable][speaker enable][pwr save][pci only]
pccard1: <PC Card bus (classic)> on pcic1
isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 7.0 on pci0
isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
atapci0: <Intel PIIX4 ATA33 controller> port 0x1050-0x105f at device 7.1 on pci0
ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0
ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0
uhci0: <Intel 82371AB/EB (PIIX4) USB controller> port 0x1060-0x107f irq 5 at device
7.2 on pci0
usb0: <Intel 82371AB/EB (PIIX4) USB controller> on uhci0
usb0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
aue0: LINKSYS Inc. LINKSYS USB Adapter, rev 1.10/1.01, addr 2
aue0: Ethernet address: 00:e0:98:84:c5:55
miibus0: <MII bus> on aue0
ukphy0: <Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface> on miibus0
ukphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
pci0: <bridge, PCI-unknown> at 7.3 (no driver attached)
pcm0: <ESS Technology Maestro-2E> port 0x1400-0x14ff irq 5 at device 8.0 on pci0
pci0: <simple comms> at 16.0 (no driver attached)
acpi_ec0: <embedded controller> on acpi0
acpi_button0: <Power Button> on acpi0
acpi_button1: <Sleep Button> on acpi0
acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x1008-0x100b on acpi0
npx0: <math processor> on motherboard
npx0: INT 16 interface
orm0: <Option ROM> at iomem 0xc0000-0xcffff on isa0
fdc0: <NEC 72065B or clone> at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0
fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold
fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0
atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0
kbd0 at atkbd0
psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0
psm0: model Generic PS/2 mouse, device ID 0
vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0
sio0: type 16550A
sio1 at port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa0
sio1: type 16550A
ppc0: parallel port not found.
pmtimer0 on isa0
unknown: <PNP0200> can't assign resources
unknown: <PNP0303> can't assign resources
unknown: <PNP0F13> can't assign resources
acpi_cpu0: set speed to 100.0%
acpi_cpu: CPU throttling enabled, 8 steps from 100% to 12.5%
ata1-slave: ata_command: timeout waiting for intr
ata1-slave: identify failed
ad0: 19077MB <HITACHI_DK23BA-20> [38760/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA33
acd0: DVD-ROM <TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-C2402> at ata1-master PIO4
Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s2a
WARNING: / was not properly dismounted
WARNING: /data was not properly dismounted
WARNING: /tmp was not properly dismounted
/tmp: lost blocks 0 files 1
WARNING: /usr was not properly dismounted
WARNING: /var was not properly dismounted
linprocfs registered
/dev/vmmon: Module vmmon: registered with major=200 minor=0 tag=$Name: build-570 $
/dev/vmmon: Module vmmon: initialized
aue0: promiscuous mode enabled
vmnet1: promiscuous mode enabled
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