On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 09:06:17AM +0100, Gerard Meijer wrote: > Hi I have a P4 2.6Mhz running on FreeBSD 5.3. > > Every few days the server crashes. When it crashes it says: > > spin lock sleepq chain held by 0xc1eb7640 for > 5 seconds > panic: spin lock held too long > Uptime: 2d3h56m36s > > Anybody any idea how I can fix this?
See the chapter on kernel debugging in the developers' handbook to learn how to obtain the necessary information for a developer to begin investigating this. Also make sure you're running with all of the 5.3 errata patches, and consider updating to 5.4-PRERELEASE to see if it's fixed already. Kris
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