On 2024-05-22, James Cook <falsif...@falsifian.org> wrote: > One of my OpenBSD boxes sometimes gets in a weird locked-up or > almost-locked-up state. I'm wondering what I can do to debug it > further next time it happens. ... > I would also expect the cache number to be much higher. E.g. on > this occasion, I was running "git annex fsck", which reads plenty > of data from disk.
Heavy filesystem access can result in this sort of thing, I used to have unpacked ports source on one of my machines for grepping over, the machine was pretty much unusable for anything else while that was running. Might be worth trying some noatime mount flags if you don't already have them, at least then you can avoid turning some reads into writes.
