On 3/4/2013 10:01 PM, Steven Hartland wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Karl Denninger" <k...@denninger.net> >>> Then it happened I thought the machine had wedged, but minutes (not >>> seconds) later, everything sprung into action again. >> >> That's exactly what I can reproduce here; the stalls are anywhere from a >> few seconds to well north of a half-minute. It looks like the machine >> is hung -- but it is not. > > Out of interest when this happens for you is syncer using lots of CPU? > > If its anything like my stalls you'll need top loaded prior to the fact. > > Regards > Steve Don't know. But the CPU is getting hammered when it happens because I am geli-encrypting all my drives and as a consequence it is not at all uncommon for the load average to be north of 10 when the system is under heavy I/O load. System response is fine right up until it stalls.
I'm going to put some effort into trying to isolate exactly what is going on here in the coming days since I happen to have a spare box in an identical configuration that I can afford to lock up without impacting anyone doing real work :-) -- -- Karl Denninger /The Market Ticker ®/ <http://market-ticker.org> Cuda Systems LLC _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
