On 07-May-2003 Glenn Johnson wrote: > On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 10:22:20PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > >> On Wed, 7 May 2003, W. Josephson wrote: >> >> > On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 09:40:19PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: >> > >> > > On Wed, 7 May 2003, W. Josephson wrote: >> > > >> > > > On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 08:51:09PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: >> > > > >> > > > > Do the recommendations in UPDATING help you guys at all? >> > > > >> > > > I'm not quite sure what you are after >> > > >> > > Did you actually read /usr/src/UPDATING? >> > >> > yes. Do you actually care about having feedback on -CURRENT? >> >> Yes we do. That's why I asked. Which of the options suggested in >> UPDATING did you try, and what were the results? > > In my case I have all of the debugging options off as per UPDATING. I > think I have a system with a different twist though. Here is the uname > output: > > FreeBSD 5.1-BETA #2: Tue May 6 10:38:29 CDT 2003 > root_at_node1.cluster.srrc.usda.gov:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CLUSTER-FW > > When I first boot the system up it is fine. However, it slows down > after a period of time. Within a few hours it is essentially unusable. > It does not seem to be a gradual slowdown but I do not know how to > quantify that. I did find the following in /var/log/messages after the > most recent slowdown: > > May 6 19:52:21 node1 kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: twed0s1b, blkno: 408, > size: 4096 > > The system had been up for about four and a half hours and the time > stamp above corresponds to when the slowdown occurred. Now, I could be > having problems with the 3-Ware RAID card or this could be the same > thing that others are reporting. Anyway, I thought I should share that > as it might provide a clue to someone. It sounds like perhaps a lock is being held across sleep or some such. Have you tried running the system with WITNESS and INVARIANTS turned on? -- John Baldwin <jhb_at_FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/Received on Wed May 07 2003 - 09:02:36 UTC
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