Re: 9 hangs with idletick = 0

2011-10-13 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Adrian Chadd writes: > Dag-Erling Smørgrav writes: > > Could you check if network activity (e.g. downloading an ISO) triggers > > it, and if so, if it goes away when you set the kern.eventtimer.idletick > > sysctl to 0? > Don't you mean 'set it to 1' ? Uh, yes :) DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - d

Re: 9 hangs with idletick = 0

2011-10-13 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <86lisp9dzn@ds4.des.no>, =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= wr ites: >"Poul-Henning Kamp" writes: >> For what it's worth, I regularly (=3Devery 10-12 days or so) see all >> timer activity in the system die and have to use the 4-sec >> power-switch to get the system down. > >Could

Re: 9 hangs with idletick = 0

2011-10-13 Thread Adrian Chadd
2011/10/13 Dag-Erling Smørgrav : > "Poul-Henning Kamp" writes: >> For what it's worth, I regularly (=every 10-12 days or so) see all >> timer activity in the system die and have to use the 4-sec >> power-switch to get the system down. > > Could you check if network activity (e.g. downloading an IS

Re: 9 hangs with idletick = 0

2011-10-13 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
"Poul-Henning Kamp" writes: > For what it's worth, I regularly (=every 10-12 days or so) see all > timer activity in the system die and have to use the 4-sec > power-switch to get the system down. Could you check if network activity (e.g. downloading an ISO) triggers it, and if so, if it goes awa

Re: 9 hangs with idletick = 0

2011-10-13 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <86lispaztm@ds4.des.no>, =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= wr ites: >Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav writes: >> I've just built a kernel with KTR support, and with KTR_SPARE2, KTR_INTR >> and KTR_SCHED enabled by default. I'll see what turns up. I'm also >> going to try machdep.idle=3

Re: 9 hangs with idletick = 0

2011-10-13 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Dag-Erling Smørgrav writes: > I've just built a kernel with KTR support, and with KTR_SPARE2, KTR_INTR > and KTR_SCHED enabled by default. I'll see what turns up. I'm also > going to try machdep.idle=hlt with kern.eventtimer.idletick=0, and using > a PCI re(4) instead of the on-board msk(4) whil

Re: 9 hangs with idletick = 0

2011-10-12 Thread Ryan Stone
2011/10/12 Dag-Erling Smørgrav : > BTW, can I suggest appropriating one of KTR_SPARE[234] and renaming it > to KTR_CLOCK?  I don't see why cxgb should use them, let alone all > three; it should use KTR_DEV or KTR_NET instead. KTR_MALLOC has been completely unused in the tree since at least FreeBSD

Re: 9 hangs with idletick = 0

2011-10-12 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Alexander Motin writes: > If short freezes you've descrived happens often enough, you may try to > log them down with enabling KTR_SPARE2 ktr event type and disabling > logging within few seconds after such freeze happened. I've been working with adri to try to isolate it. We've eliminated nfs a

Re: 9 hangs with idletick = 0

2011-09-28 Thread Alexander Motin
Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > I have a box running a GENERIC kernel from September 25th that freezes > completely for a few seconds, up to a minute or so, at random intervals. > Sooner or later it freezes permanently (or at least longer than I am > willing to wait for it to unfreeze) and must be pow