Re: slow system freeze - data

2004-12-28 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Tue, 2004-Dec-28 03:27:00 +0100, Benjamin Lutz wrote: >> The info you dumped shows that there's a filesystem deadlock on >> ad4s1f. > >In case you haven't guessed, that'd be my /usr. I hadn't really considered which filesystem it was. Locked root vnodes are bad news anywhere - basically, once

Re: slow system freeze - data

2004-12-27 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 03:52:50AM +0100, Benjamin Lutz wrote: > > Does xmms try to run with rtprio or idprio? Those are still broken, > > and can lead to deadlocks, afaik. > > No, none all PIDs are listed as "normal" by idprio and rtprio, except the > [pagezero] process, which is listed as "idl

Re: slow system freeze - data

2004-12-27 Thread Benjamin Lutz
> Does xmms try to run with rtprio or idprio? Those are still broken, > and can lead to deadlocks, afaik. No, none all PIDs are listed as "normal" by idprio and rtprio, except the [pagezero] process, which is listed as "idle priority 31" by both programs, and I suppose that's intentional. Gree

Re: slow system freeze - data

2004-12-27 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 12:38:44PM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On Sun, 2004-Dec-26 08:14:49 +0100, Benjamin Lutz wrote: > >The freeze just happened again. I managed to get into the debugger and get > >some info. > > The info you dumped shows that there's a filesystem deadlock on > ad4s1f. This

Re: slow system freeze - data

2004-12-27 Thread Benjamin Lutz
Hello Peter, > The info you dumped shows that there's a filesystem deadlock on > ad4s1f. In case you haven't guessed, that'd be my /usr. > Unfortunately, it's not clear (to me) where to go next. Printing the > locked vnodes might help but that's not easy to do without gdb. You mean that's the

Re: slow system freeze - data

2004-12-27 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Sun, 2004-Dec-26 08:14:49 +0100, Benjamin Lutz wrote: >The freeze just happened again. I managed to get into the debugger and get >some info. The info you dumped shows that there's a filesystem deadlock on ad4s1f. This is consistent with the behaviour you reported - the system is running "nor

Re: slow system freeze - data

2004-12-25 Thread Benjamin Lutz
Hello, The freeze just happened again. I managed to get into the debugger and get some info. Since I haven't been able to aqcuire the equipment for a serial console connection yet, I've made pictures again. Unfortunately, my system doesn't support wide console modes, so it's a tad annoying to