Re: debugging lockups

From: Don Lewis <truckman_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 20:09:51 -0800 (PST)
On  4 Mar, vladimir_at_math.uic.edu wrote:
> Following up on my previous post  from a couple of days ago with the
> same subject (unfortunately I don't have my original email, so this
> will probably start  a new thread).   A -CURRENT system (built on Mar 3,
> 2004) frequently locks up when typing "ps" or "w", in addition to when
> killing memory-intensive processes.   The system locks up hard, and I
> cannot break into the debugger from the console, although the necessary
> options are compiled into the kernel.

This is a known problem.  See the thread "sysctl spinning (was: Re: ps
Causes Hard Hang)".
Received on Thu Mar 04 2004 - 19:10:04 UTC

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