I just ran a MySQL lookup process (written in Perl) as root prefixed with "idprio 1." I expected it to take a while, but not several minutes. After a while I decided to abort it, so I typed ^c in its `screen' window. From then on (either from the ^c point or the idprio run, I know not which), I could not create any new processes, nor could I kill the running task. Any attempt to do either would hang indefinitely. I could end processes and work within existing processes as long as they didn't try to create new ones. I entered the debugger (I use the alt method of <cr>~^b) and typed, among other things, "show lockedvnodes" and got one vnode which said "... with 22 pending," and this count went up by 1 each time I tried creating a new process. Sadly, I forgot to snapshot that screen, so I can't quote the rest of that entry. I remember it said VDIR and type something+VOBJECT, but I don't remember what the something was. Unable to retrieve my system, I finally typed "panic" in the debugger so at least the disks would sync. Other than "giving up on 4 buffers," that went fine.
Any ideas what this is, and whether it's a bug? I thought idprio was harmless as far as affecting other processes. uname -a: FreeBSD kirk.dlee.org 4.10-STABLE FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE #0: Sun Aug 8 03:03:49 EDT 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr2/obj/usr/src/sys/CUSTOM i386 -- Doug Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] SSB + BART Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bartsite.com "Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on to say, `Why were things of this sort ever brought into the world?'" --Marcus Aurelius _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"