On Wednesday, 18 December 2002 at 22:36:08 -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Dec 19), Greg 'groggy' Lehey said: >> I've been experiencing a lot of lockups (system completely dead, no >> reaction at the keyboard, can't ping) on an Intel SMP machine running >> CURRENT. Normally I do my kernel builds over NFS, but in the last >> few months I haven't been able to complete a 'make world'. Along >> with -DNOCLEAN I can get a build done in about 4 attempts; local >> builds work fine. NFS builds also work fine with other single >> processor machines. >> >> Questions: >> >> 1. Has anybody else seen this? >> 2. How should I approach looking for the problem? > > I've seen intermittent lockups where everything is dead, but I can > break into DDB via serial console. They may be NFS-related, as it > often crashes a half-hour before I get in to work, which could be due > to co-workers trying to bulid from my NFS-exported ports tree. ps > inside DDB doesn't show anything obviously wrong to my untrained eyes.
Well, then at least you can get a dump and others can look. In my case, the machine is completely catatonic. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
