On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 09:51:41PM -0400, sven falempin wrote: > Hello, > > I have a script that mostly untar stuff on a vnd device. > And i have the same problem with syspatch > > The program state gets into needbuf forever, ( the top state ). > > I'm trying to figure out what is happening, > I have a feeling it may be an entropy exhaustion > but it's just a guess.
You can't always trust feelings. > > vmstat -m goes near 100% usage quickly > and swap/memory is like empty according to top. > > Is it possible to get out of `vmstat -m` logged memory, > could it be a limit in login.conf that I reach without knowing ? > > Once the problem is present, I cannot do anything but reboot > which does not help to understand what is going on. > > Please hAlp. You fail to report almost all relevent information. So we cannot help. -Otto