Re: current unable to exec processes under load

2002-10-13 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 12:12:43AM -0400, Jeff Roberson wrote: Can you back out my scheduler changes just to be sure? I can not foresee any way that they could cause this, but I'd like to be certain. Blocking on inode usually indicates a vfs deadlock. Can you break into ddb and type 'show

Re: current unable to exec processes under load

2002-10-13 Thread Ollivier Robert
According to Kris Kennaway: load: 0.00 cmd: tcsh 8403 [inode] 0.01u 0.00s 0% 1076k The dreaded inode problem. I've been seeing this from time to time where the system will be blocked for all I/O on a given disk with all processes waiting on inode. Generally updating the system to a more

Re: current unable to exec processes under load

2002-10-13 Thread Terry Lambert
Ollivier Robert wrote: According to Kris Kennaway: load: 0.00 cmd: tcsh 8403 [inode] 0.01u 0.00s 0% 1076k The dreaded inode problem. I've been seeing this from time to time where the system will be blocked for all I/O on a given disk with all processes waiting on inode. Generally

current unable to exec processes under load

2002-10-12 Thread Kris Kennaway
I'm having a strange problem with my -current box: I am running the bfbtester port on system utilities, which basically forks 100 copies of the binary at once to test different options. The problem is that sometimes the -current system becomes unable to fork *any* new processes, and even

Re: current unable to exec processes under load

2002-10-12 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 12:12:43AM -0400, Jeff Roberson wrote: Can you back out my scheduler changes just to be sure? I don't think I'm running them: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT (ROT13) #1: Fri Oct 11 01:14:18 PDT 2002 I can not foresee any way that they could cause this, but I'd like to be

Re: current unable to exec processes under load

2002-10-12 Thread Jeff Roberson
On Sat, 12 Oct 2002, Kris Kennaway wrote: I'm having a strange problem with my -current box: I am running the bfbtester port on system utilities, which basically forks 100 copies of the binary at once to test different options. The problem is that sometimes the -current system becomes unable