On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 02:11:05PM -0400, Vivek Khera wrote: > > On Oct 6, 2006, at 1:57 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > >>This is very strange. You 3 instances of getty where just reading the > >>tty input, and all suspectible processes (like sshd) are waiting > >>on net > >>events. No processes are blocked on the fs. One nfsd is serving > >>the request, > >>and dump is active. > > > >To repeat something I said earlier: when creating a snapshot > >(e.g. which dump -L does), the entire system may become unresponsive > >untilk the snapshot completes, which can take many minutes. > > I know snapshot takes a while -- we're used to that.
OK, thanks for confirming. > I'm now convinced it was all stemming from some bug in bge driver (at > least for my specific chipset.) Last night I put in an old spare > 3c905 NIC and turned off the motherboard bge via BIOS. We'd be interested in diagnosing this problem separately; can you set up a test machine with this card and give me access to it? Kris
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