process freeze (state *inp)

2007-08-20 Thread Julian D. Seifert
Hi, I'm running an ircd (derived from unrealircd) on a FreeBSD 5.5-Release. Most times it runs totally okay but sometimes (not reproducable) the process freezes with state "*inp" shown with "top". On no other operating system this problem occurs. (Linux 2.6.x and FreeBSD 6.2 and -Current) When

Re: process freeze (state *inp)

2007-08-20 Thread Julian D. Seifert
On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 05:35:34PM -0500, Eric F Crist wrote: > At the risk of sounding rude, the 5.x series of FreeBSD is > deprecated. I'm running UnrealIRCd on a few different FreeBSD > systems, and I've never had any problems. Try running on 6.2-RELEASE > and I'm sure you won't have any

Re: process freeze (state *inp)

2007-08-25 Thread Julian D. Seifert
> The "*inp" state means that the thead is blocked on a mutex named "inp", > probably a lock for an inpcb (internet protocol control block: IP-specific > data about a socket). The network stack locking had a _lot_ of changes in > 6.x, and backporting them is probably very non-trivial. I'd definit