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Subject: server freezes, all processes stuck in "inode" status
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>Number:         11680
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       server freezes, all processes stuck in "inode" status
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed May 12 21:10:00 PDT 1999
>Closed-Date:    Thu May 24 02:02:15 PDT 2001
>Last-Modified:  Thu May 24 02:02:25 PDT 2001
>Originator:     Kevin Martin
>Release:        FreeBSD 3.1-STABLE i386
>Organization:
pair Networks, Inc
>Environment:

	Xeon 500 Mhz, 512Mb RAM, Adaptec Ultra2 SCSI with two Ultra2 drives.

>Description:

	Once or twice a day, under light load (avg under 0.30), the server
	will freeze up and no longer be able to start new processes or
	continue doing any useful work.  If "top" happens to be left
	running, it will always show "inode" as the status for all processes.

>How-To-Repeat:

	Leave server running, wait.

>Fix:
	
	Unknown.  This is impacting a major commerce server after it was
	upgraded from 2.1.7 to 3.1-STABLE.  We will probably have to fall
	back to 2.2.8 :(


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: Kevin Day <toasty@home.dragondata.com>
To: sigma@pair.com
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: kern/11680: server freezes, all processes stuck in "inode" status
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 23:34:36 -0500 (CDT)

 > >Description:
 > 
 > 	Once or twice a day, under light load (avg under 0.30), the server
 > 	will freeze up and no longer be able to start new processes or
 > 	continue doing any useful work.  If "top" happens to be left
 > 	running, it will always show "inode" as the status for all processes.
 > 
 
 Two questions, to see if you're seeing the same thing I am.
 
 1) Are you using this system as an NFS client?
 
 2) If you break into the debugger when it's frozen (ctrl-alt-escape) and
 type 'ps', is at least one process stuck in 'vmopar'?
 
 
 Kevin
 

From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To: sigma@pair.com
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: kern/11680: server freezes, all processes stuck in "inode" status 
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 01:40:04 -0700

 >>Synopsis:       server freezes, all processes stuck in "inode" status
 
    ...might be a duplicate of PR 8416.
 
 -DG
 
 David Greenman
 Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org
 Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com
 
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: phk 
State-Changed-When: Thu May 24 02:02:15 PDT 2001 
State-Changed-Why:  
Overtaken by events 


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