On Monday 05 January 2009 06:29:33 Sydney Longfellow wrote:
> I'm getting problems with my server locking up after accumulating far
> too many processes until I have to reboot.
>
> The states of the processes are reading either sbwait or lockf when this
> spiral out of control starts to happen.
>
> Any ideas what might cause this?
sbwait indicates a process is waiting for data on a socket. lockf indicates
that a process is trying to lock portions of a file. If you put the two
together, a cause could be network congestion (disk to network) or harddrive
problems (network to disk).
A server running out of memory and into swap can also be a cause, as processes
are blocked (sockets don't get data and locks are not acquired) until the
swap operation is completed. When processes keep getting spawned, this effect
snowballs.
--
Mel
Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules
and never get to the software part.
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