On Feb 08 08:25:49, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2012-02-07, Joe Gidi <j...@entropicblur.com> wrote: > > In every case, when the box hangs, I'm unable to break into ddb. > > How long do you leave it when it hangs? There have been occasions > where a box appears to hang but then recovers. > > Are you using softdep?
This interests me. The OP's problem was what appeared to be a hang during "make -j8 build'. I have experienced something similar while doing heavy IO operations. If I cvs up many repositories at once, while dump|restoring a few filesystems at once, the box *sometimes* seems totaly unresponsive, only to react to my keybord stroke _a_long_time_ later; sometimes, it is unresponsive locally, but can be ssh'd to - but the login process doesn't make it to actually spawning a shell. Yes, I am usign softdep, almost everywhere. Stuart, could you please elaborate on how this (possibly) happens, and what is the role of softdep in it? Thank you for your time Jan