On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 09:49:57PM +0100, Lars Kristiansen wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 02:15:37AM -0800, Rob wrote: > >> > >> One more thing, for those who are reading this thread. > >> > >> Concerning my kernel locking up while using a > >> swapfile: > >> > >> I had an infinite while loop running during the > >> kernel compilation, printing out 'swapinfo' every > >> 15 seconds. The last output before the machine goes > >> dead is this: > >> > >> /dev/ad0s1b 39848 11820 39848 30% > >> /dev/md0 131072 5908 131072 5% > >> Total 170920 17728 153192 10% > >> > >> which means that swap space is OK right before the > >> freeze, but within 15 seconds from here, the kernel > >> locks up.... > > > > In my experience, fifteen seconds is enough to fill up 130+MB of swap, > > so a much smaller polling interval is necessary. > > Probably true, but when trying with only one swap partition instead of > swapfile, and that partition gets filled up, the build process failed and > the computer continued to work as normal.
Yeah, it sounds like you're running into a buffer cache/VFS/VM deadlock. They're nasty, but generally not hard to fix individually. -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \'[ FreeBSD ]''''''''''\ <> [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ The Power to Serve! \ Opinions expressed are my own. \,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,\ _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
