Re: more amd hangs: problem really in syslog?

1999-07-15 Thread Gregory Sutter
On Wed, Jul 14, 1999 at 10:56:05PM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: > > On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > > 'siobi' is someone trying to open the serial console, for whatever > > > reason. Without knowing who it was that was stuck there, it's hard to > > > guess what is going on. > > > >

Re: more amd hangs: problem really in syslog?

1999-07-15 Thread Gregory Sutter
On Wed, Jul 14, 1999 at 10:56:05PM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: > > On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > > 'siobi' is someone trying to open the serial console, for whatever > > > reason. Without knowing who it was that was stuck there, it's hard to > > > guess what is going on. > > > >

Re: more amd hangs: problem really in syslog?

1999-07-15 Thread Doug
Mike Smith wrote: > > > On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > > 'siobi' is someone trying to open the serial console, for whatever > > > reason. Without knowing who it was that was stuck there, it's hard to > > > guess what is going on. > > > > D'uh, sorry. Long day. It was amd that

Re: more amd hangs: problem really in syslog?

1999-07-14 Thread Doug
Mike Smith wrote: > > > On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > > 'siobi' is someone trying to open the serial console, for whatever > > > reason. Without knowing who it was that was stuck there, it's hard to > > > guess what is going on. > > > > D'uh, sorry. Long day. It was amd tha

Re: more amd hangs: problem really in syslog?

1999-07-14 Thread Mike Smith
> On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > > 'siobi' is someone trying to open the serial console, for whatever > > reason. Without knowing who it was that was stuck there, it's hard to > > guess what is going on. > > D'uh, sorry. Long day. It was amd that was hung in the siobi > state.

Re: more amd hangs: problem really in syslog?

1999-07-14 Thread Mike Smith
> On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > > 'siobi' is someone trying to open the serial console, for whatever > > reason. Without knowing who it was that was stuck there, it's hard to > > guess what is going on. > > D'uh, sorry. Long day. It was amd that was hung in the siobi > state.

Re: more amd hangs: problem really in syslog?

1999-07-13 Thread Doug
On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > Comment the whole thing out, kill -HUP the syslogd (or kill and restart > it), and see if amd still locks up. Ok, now I think I get it. You want me to enable syslog'ing in amd, then do what you're talking about here. I will try this fir

Re: more amd hangs: problem really in syslog?

1999-07-13 Thread Doug
On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > 'siobi' is someone trying to open the serial console, for whatever > reason. Without knowing who it was that was stuck there, it's hard to > guess what is going on. D'uh, sorry. Long day. It was amd that was hung in the siobi state. No way to clea

Re: more amd hangs: problem really in syslog?

1999-07-13 Thread Matthew Dillon
:*.err;kern.debug;auth.notice;mail.crit /dev/console :*.notice;kern.debug;lpr.info;mail.crit;news.err /var/log/messages :mail.info /var/log/maillog :lpr.info/var/log/lpd-errs :cron.*

Re: more amd hangs: problem really in syslog?

1999-07-13 Thread Mike Smith
> On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > After pounding on this some more with today's -current (prior to > > > the MNT_ASYNC flag change) I got a lot more lockups that looked like > > > this: > > > > > > On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Doug wrote: > > > > > > > Ok, got another hang in "

Re: more amd hangs: problem really in syslog?

1999-07-13 Thread Doug
On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > After pounding on this some more with today's -current (prior to > > the MNT_ASYNC flag change) I got a lot more lockups that looked like > > this: > > > > On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Doug wrote: > > > > > Ok, got another hang in "siobi" state (this tim

Re: more amd hangs: problem really in syslog?

1999-07-13 Thread Doug
On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > : > : So I started thinking that maybe the problem was actually in > :syslog (or amd's interface to it). So I disabled the following two options > :in my amd.conf file: > : > :log_file = syslog:local7 > :log_options =all > :

Re: more amd hangs: problem really in syslog?

1999-07-13 Thread Doug
On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > Comment the whole thing out, kill -HUP the syslogd (or kill and restart > it), and see if amd still locks up. Ok, now I think I get it. You want me to enable syslog'ing in amd, then do what you're talking about here. I will try this fi

Re: more amd hangs: problem really in syslog?

1999-07-13 Thread Doug
On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > 'siobi' is someone trying to open the serial console, for whatever > reason. Without knowing who it was that was stuck there, it's hard to > guess what is going on. D'uh, sorry. Long day. It was amd that was hung in the siobi state. No way to cle

Re: more amd hangs: problem really in syslog?

1999-07-13 Thread Matthew Dillon
:*.err;kern.debug;auth.notice;mail.crit /dev/console :*.notice;kern.debug;lpr.info;mail.crit;news.err /var/log/messages :mail.info /var/log/maillog :lpr.info/var/log/lpd-errs :cron.*

Re: more amd hangs: problem really in syslog?

1999-07-13 Thread Mike Smith
> On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > After pounding on this some more with today's -current (prior to > > > the MNT_ASYNC flag change) I got a lot more lockups that looked like > > > this: > > > > > > On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Doug wrote: > > > > > > > Ok, got another hang in

Re: more amd hangs: problem really in syslog?

1999-07-13 Thread Doug
On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > After pounding on this some more with today's -current (prior to > > the MNT_ASYNC flag change) I got a lot more lockups that looked like > > this: > > > > On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Doug wrote: > > > > > Ok, got another hang in "siobi" state (this ti

Re: more amd hangs: problem really in syslog?

1999-07-13 Thread Doug
On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > : > : So I started thinking that maybe the problem was actually in > :syslog (or amd's interface to it). So I disabled the following two options > :in my amd.conf file: > : > :log_file = syslog:local7 > :log_options =all >

Re: more amd hangs: problem really in syslog?

1999-07-13 Thread Mike Smith
> After pounding on this some more with today's -current (prior to > the MNT_ASYNC flag change) I got a lot more lockups that looked like > this: > > On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Doug wrote: > > > Ok, got another hang in "siobi" state (this time after it > > successfully completed the script).

Re: more amd hangs: problem really in syslog?

1999-07-13 Thread Matthew Dillon
: : So I started thinking that maybe the problem was actually in :syslog (or amd's interface to it). So I disabled the following two options :in my amd.conf file: : :log_file = syslog:local7 :log_options =all : : And lo and behold, it worked like a charm. I was

Re: more amd hangs: problem really in syslog?

1999-07-13 Thread Mike Smith
> After pounding on this some more with today's -current (prior to > the MNT_ASYNC flag change) I got a lot more lockups that looked like > this: > > On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Doug wrote: > > > Ok, got another hang in "siobi" state (this time after it > > successfully completed the script)

Re: more amd hangs: problem really in syslog?

1999-07-13 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Tue, 13 Jul 1999 13:20:55 MST, Doug wrote: > After confirming that it worked with no logging, I tried enabling > logging to a regular file, and that also worked like a charm. After > turning syslog style logging back on, it locked up cold, with a very > similar traceback. Sheesh, Mark

Re: more amd hangs: problem really in syslog?

1999-07-13 Thread Matthew Dillon
: : So I started thinking that maybe the problem was actually in :syslog (or amd's interface to it). So I disabled the following two options :in my amd.conf file: : :log_file = syslog:local7 :log_options =all : : And lo and behold, it worked like a charm. I was

Re: more amd hangs: problem really in syslog?

1999-07-13 Thread Doug
After pounding on this some more with today's -current (prior to the MNT_ASYNC flag change) I got a lot more lockups that looked like this: On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Doug wrote: > Ok, got another hang in "siobi" state (this time after it > successfully completed the script). Here is the

Re: more amd hangs: problem really in syslog?

1999-07-13 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Tue, 13 Jul 1999 13:20:55 MST, Doug wrote: > After confirming that it worked with no logging, I tried enabling > logging to a regular file, and that also worked like a charm. After > turning syslog style logging back on, it locked up cold, with a very > similar traceback. Sheesh, Mark

Re: more amd hangs: problem really in syslog?

1999-07-13 Thread Doug
After pounding on this some more with today's -current (prior to the MNT_ASYNC flag change) I got a lot more lockups that looked like this: On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Doug wrote: > Ok, got another hang in "siobi" state (this time after it > successfully completed the script). Here is th

RE: more amd hangs: in _start()

1999-07-13 Thread Doug
On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Ladavac Marino wrote: > I don't know if your diagnosis was in jest, Yes it was, but thank you for asking. :) I should have known better than to attempt subtle humor at the end of a long, tiring day. Doug -- On account of being a democracy and run by the people

RE: more amd hangs: in _start()

1999-07-13 Thread Doug
On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Ladavac Marino wrote: > I don't know if your diagnosis was in jest, Yes it was, but thank you for asking. :) I should have known better than to attempt subtle humor at the end of a long, tiring day. Doug -- On account of being a democracy and run by the peopl

Re: more amd hangs: in _start()

1999-07-12 Thread Doug
Ok, got another hang in "siobi" state (this time after it successfully completed the script). Here is the trace: (gdb) file /usr/sbin/amd Reading symbols from /usr/sbin/amd...done. (gdb) attach 155 Attaching to program: /usr/sbin/amd, process 155 0x8063dc4 in open () (gdb) where #0 0x8063

Re: more amd hangs

1999-07-12 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On 10 Jul 1999 12:56:41 -0400, R. Matthew Emerson wrote: > I thought that it was almost never proper to soft-mount rw filesytems. > Am I mistaken about this? I must admit, it sounds like sensible advice. The only NFS exports which I have to rely on are read-only mounts. The only time I soft-mou

Re: more amd hangs

1999-07-12 Thread Doug
Ok, it's now wedged in a different state (using the same perl script to wedge it). According to top: 317 root2 0 648K 456K STOP 0 0:00 0.00% 0.00% amd I also managed to attach to the running process this time: (gdb) file /usr/sbin/amd Reading symbols from /u

Re: more amd hangs: in _start()

1999-07-12 Thread Doug
Ok, got another hang in "siobi" state (this time after it successfully completed the script). Here is the trace: (gdb) file /usr/sbin/amd Reading symbols from /usr/sbin/amd...done. (gdb) attach 155 Attaching to program: /usr/sbin/amd, process 155 0x8063dc4 in open () (gdb) where #0 0x806

Re: more amd hangs

1999-07-12 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On 10 Jul 1999 12:56:41 -0400, R. Matthew Emerson wrote: > I thought that it was almost never proper to soft-mount rw filesytems. > Am I mistaken about this? I must admit, it sounds like sensible advice. The only NFS exports which I have to rely on are read-only mounts. The only time I soft-mo

Re: more amd hangs

1999-07-12 Thread Doug
Ok, it's now wedged in a different state (using the same perl script to wedge it). According to top: 317 root2 0 648K 456K STOP 0 0:00 0.00% 0.00% amd I also managed to attach to the running process this time: (gdb) file /usr/sbin/amd Reading symbols from /

Re: more amd hangs

1999-07-12 Thread Doug
On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Doug wrote: > In my continuing efforts to get this freebsd box into shape for > web hosting at my company (where it relies exclusively on NFS for > retrieving customer data) I've been making progress thanks to some recent > commits by Peter. Now I can run the heavy duty N

Re: more amd hangs

1999-07-12 Thread Doug
On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Doug wrote: > In my continuing efforts to get this freebsd box into shape for > web hosting at my company (where it relies exclusively on NFS for > retrieving customer data) I've been making progress thanks to some recent > commits by Peter. Now I can run the heavy duty

Re: more amd hangs

1999-07-10 Thread R. Matthew Emerson
Sheldon Hearn writes: > I've found that AMD exacerbates NFS-related problems. Since I moved away > from AMD toward using proper NFS mounts (soft, interruptible, bg), the > hassles I was having with NFS have gone away completely. I thought that it was almost never proper to soft-mount rw filesyte

Re: more amd hangs

1999-07-10 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Fri, 09 Jul 1999 12:00:52 MST, Doug wrote: > The amd conf files are below, any insights or suggestions welcome. I can't remember whether it was you or someone else to whom I offered this advice not so recently, so forgive me if I've suggested this to you before. I've found that AMD exacerb

Re: more amd hangs

1999-07-10 Thread R. Matthew Emerson
Sheldon Hearn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've found that AMD exacerbates NFS-related problems. Since I moved away > from AMD toward using proper NFS mounts (soft, interruptible, bg), the > hassles I was having with NFS have gone away completely. I thought that it was almost never proper to so

Re: more amd hangs

1999-07-10 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Fri, 09 Jul 1999 12:00:52 MST, Doug wrote: > The amd conf files are below, any insights or suggestions welcome. I can't remember whether it was you or someone else to whom I offered this advice not so recently, so forgive me if I've suggested this to you before. I've found that AMD exacer

more amd hangs

1999-07-09 Thread Doug
In my continuing efforts to get this freebsd box into shape for web hosting at my company (where it relies exclusively on NFS for retrieving customer data) I've been making progress thanks to some recent commits by Peter. Now I can run the heavy duty NFS access script and it completes its m

more amd hangs

1999-07-09 Thread Doug
In my continuing efforts to get this freebsd box into shape for web hosting at my company (where it relies exclusively on NFS for retrieving customer data) I've been making progress thanks to some recent commits by Peter. Now I can run the heavy duty NFS access script and it completes its