On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 11:56:33 +0100 Karl Pielorz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi All, > > We've got an HP DL380 server, stacked out with drives running Sendmail. The > machine is quite busy (LA rarely below 4 - and it's three 'spindle' sets of > RAID drives are always busy). It's probably constantly running 200-300 > copies of sendmail, plus an assortment of other processes (mostly admin > scripts that kind of thing). > > It's got a Xeon 3.2Ghz CPU (HT disabled), w/2Gb of RAM running a generic > kernel, w/out IPv6 support (and with DDB/KDB included obviously) > > This machine just 'hangs' every couple of days. I have DDB/KDB compiled in > - and if I throw it into DDB I get the following: > > [first couple of lines missed courtesy of screen-dump] > db> bt > Tracing pid 38 tid 100027 td 0xc6495180 > acpi_timer_read(c0aba3c0,c09035c0,e6a05bbc,c0662ef3,c0aba3c0) at > acpi_timer_read+0x13 > acpi_timer_get_timecout_safe(c0aba3c0) at acpi_timer_get_timecount_safe+0xa > binuptime(e6a05be8) at binuptime+0x43 > mi_switch(6,c6395900,c639a54,c639500,e6a05c34) at mi_swtich+0x33 > maybe_preempt(c6395900) at maybe_preempt+0xc4 > sched_add(c639500,4,c6495180,c6395900,c637f280) at sched_add+0x27 > setrunqueue(c6395900,4) at setrunqueue+0x63 > intr_even_schedule_thread(c637f280) at intr_event_schedule_thread+0xb5 > intr_exectue_handlers(c638d6e0,e6a05cac,13,46a05cf4,c08189f3) at > intr_execute_handlers+0x118 > ... > > I have a crash dump from it - which I've saved (I'm moderately familiar > with working with dumps, but this one is split into two?) > > If anyone has any pointers, or can do some hand holding to get more info > from the dump, or what to do next time it happens? Have you tried changing kern.timecounter.hardware to something else? TSC? Dominic _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
