On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 11:44 PM, Peter J. Philipp <[email protected]> wrote: > My brand new sparkling OpenBSD VPS is currently in crisis. > Unfortunately there is no reset function to it and I forgot to set the > "break to ddb" function. The vps admin staff is probably already asleep > so I'll have to wait a few hours. On console it says repeatedly: > > pagedaemon: wait_pla deadlock detected! > > I have tracked it down to this function in uvm/uvm_pmemrange.c ... > Now while the opportunist in me says "we should really panic here" > instead of having a DEBUG kernel, the realist in me says to hold on and > think of others. > > The question for me then is is the wait_pla pagedaemon deadlock > situation recoverable, or is this really a bug?
It's a bug. The situation should be permitted to get into that state but obviously it has gotten then. A backtrace and "show uvmexp" from ddb would probably help. Philip Guenther
