Re: 9 hangs with idletick = 0

From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk_at_phk.freebsd.dk>
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:39:44 +0000
In message <86lisp9dzn.fsf_at_ds4.des.no>, =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= wr
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>"Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk_at_phk.freebsd.dk> 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 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?

I have never seen any correlation, mostly because I usually don't
notice it right away, but only when something like top(1) doesn't
update and similar.

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