Re: race-to-the-root, hello anyone out there?

2001-08-13 Thread David O'Brien

On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 06:01:55PM -0400, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> < said:
> > I should have mentioned this.
> > /tmp is on /, which is UFS, mounted noatime and with softupdates enabled.
> > Plenty of freespace:/dev/da0s1a  1.3G  843M  361M  70% /
> 
> Same thing happens to me, but it's when sending mail (!) so there's no
> necessary correlation to the particulars of the filesystem.

Typically I am doing mail also -- but my editor+MTA writes temp files
before sending the mail out.
 
> I note that it doesn't lock up all the way immediately,

Same.  I can do anything on the machine as long as it doesn't involve a
disk access.  Ctrl-Alt-F1 to get out of X works fine, but a C-A-D after
that to reboot will hang.

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Re: race-to-the-root, hello anyone out there?

2001-08-13 Thread Garrett Wollman

< said:

> I should have mentioned this.
> /tmp is on /, which is UFS, mounted noatime and with softupdates enabled.
> Plenty of freespace:/dev/da0s1a  1.3G  843M  361M  70% /

Same thing happens to me, but it's when sending mail (!) so there's no
necessary correlation to the particulars of the filesystem.

I note that it doesn't lock up all the way immediately, but I can
continue the race with a `ps' which gets it reliably all the way to
the root.

-GAWollman


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Re: race-to-the-root, hello anyone out there?

2001-08-13 Thread David O'Brien

I should have mentioned this.

/tmp is on /, which is UFS, mounted noatime and with softupdates enabled.
Plenty of freespace:/dev/da0s1a  1.3G  843M  361M  70% /

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race-to-the-root, hello anyone out there?

2001-08-13 Thread David O'Brien

Hello??  Those that have committed to /sys in the past 1.5mo, awake?

I am continuing to suffer thru what appears to be inode deadlocks where
the resulting race-to-the-root soon locks everything up solid.  Tried to
figure out how to reproduce it on demand.  All I can characterize is the
file activity that FUBARs the system is in /tmp.

What ideas do people have to solve the problem?  crashdump are an
impossibility due to the locked up disk system.

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