Andrew Heybey writes: | When the deadlock does occur, "ps" (in ddb) says that there are many | processes in vmwait. The pagedaemon is in an inode wait. The stack | trace is in default_halt() (which I assume just means that there are | no runnable processes). The system is not short of memory (unless | "short of memory" means that it is attempting to use it all as a disk | cache). | | A search of cvs-commiters for "vmwait deadlock" did not reveal (to my | ignorant eye, anyway) any fixes to -current that would apply to this | problem.
I have an environment that triggered this in less then 1/2 hour. Julian with the help of his friends (ie Matt & Alan) have brought in some changes from -current that got rid of my problem. Getting the latest RELENG_3 stuff should fix it. My processes got stuck on vmwait. Doug A. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
