Re: more amd hangs: problem really in syslog?

1999-07-15 Thread Doug
Mike Smith wrote: On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Mike Smith wrote: 'siobi' is someone trying to open the serial console, for whatever reason. Without knowing who it was that was stuck there, it's hard to guess what is going on. D'uh, sorry. Long day. It was amd that was hung in the

Re: more amd hangs: problem really in syslog?

1999-07-15 Thread Mike Smith
On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Mike Smith wrote: 'siobi' is someone trying to open the serial console, for whatever reason. Without knowing who it was that was stuck there, it's hard to guess what is going on. D'uh, sorry. Long day. It was amd that was hung in the siobi state. No way to

Re: more amd hangs: problem really in syslog?

1999-07-15 Thread Doug
Mike Smith wrote: On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Mike Smith wrote: 'siobi' is someone trying to open the serial console, for whatever reason. Without knowing who it was that was stuck there, it's hard to guess what is going on. D'uh, sorry. Long day. It was amd that was hung in the

Re: more amd hangs: problem really in syslog?

1999-07-15 Thread Gregory Sutter
On Wed, Jul 14, 1999 at 10:56:05PM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Mike Smith wrote: 'siobi' is someone trying to open the serial console, for whatever reason. Without knowing who it was that was stuck there, it's hard to guess what is going on. D'uh, sorry.

Re: more amd hangs: problem really in syslog?

1999-07-14 Thread Mike Smith
On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Mike Smith wrote: 'siobi' is someone trying to open the serial console, for whatever reason. Without knowing who it was that was stuck there, it's hard to guess what is going on. D'uh, sorry. Long day. It was amd that was hung in the siobi state. No way to

RE: more amd hangs: in _start()

1999-07-13 Thread Doug
On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Ladavac Marino wrote: I don't know if your diagnosis was in jest, Yes it was, but thank you for asking. :) I should have known better than to attempt subtle humor at the end of a long, tiring day. Doug -- On account of being a democracy and run by the

Re: more amd hangs: problem really in syslog?

1999-07-13 Thread Matthew Dillon
: : So I started thinking that maybe the problem was actually in :syslog (or amd's interface to it). So I disabled the following two options :in my amd.conf file: : :log_file = syslog:local7 :log_options =all : : And lo and behold, it worked like a charm. I

Re: more amd hangs: problem really in syslog?

1999-07-13 Thread Mike Smith
After pounding on this some more with today's -current (prior to the MNT_ASYNC flag change) I got a lot more lockups that looked like this: On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Doug wrote: Ok, got another hang in "siobi" state (this time after it successfully completed the script). Here is

Re: more amd hangs: problem really in syslog?

1999-07-13 Thread Doug
On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: : : So I started thinking that maybe the problem was actually in :syslog (or amd's interface to it). So I disabled the following two options :in my amd.conf file: : :log_file = syslog:local7 :log_options =all : :

Re: more amd hangs: problem really in syslog?

1999-07-13 Thread Doug
On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Mike Smith wrote: After pounding on this some more with today's -current (prior to the MNT_ASYNC flag change) I got a lot more lockups that looked like this: On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Doug wrote: Ok, got another hang in "siobi" state (this time after it

RE: more amd hangs: in _start()

1999-07-13 Thread Doug
On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Ladavac Marino wrote: I don't know if your diagnosis was in jest, Yes it was, but thank you for asking. :) I should have known better than to attempt subtle humor at the end of a long, tiring day. Doug -- On account of being a democracy and run by the

Re: more amd hangs: problem really in syslog?

1999-07-13 Thread Doug
After pounding on this some more with today's -current (prior to the MNT_ASYNC flag change) I got a lot more lockups that looked like this: On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Doug wrote: Ok, got another hang in siobi state (this time after it successfully completed the script). Here is the

Re: more amd hangs: problem really in syslog?

1999-07-13 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Tue, 13 Jul 1999 13:20:55 MST, Doug wrote: After confirming that it worked with no logging, I tried enabling logging to a regular file, and that also worked like a charm. After turning syslog style logging back on, it locked up cold, with a very similar traceback. Sheesh, Mark

Re: more amd hangs: problem really in syslog?

1999-07-13 Thread Matthew Dillon
: : So I started thinking that maybe the problem was actually in :syslog (or amd's interface to it). So I disabled the following two options :in my amd.conf file: : :log_file = syslog:local7 :log_options =all : : And lo and behold, it worked like a charm. I was

Re: more amd hangs: problem really in syslog?

1999-07-13 Thread Mike Smith
After pounding on this some more with today's -current (prior to the MNT_ASYNC flag change) I got a lot more lockups that looked like this: On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Doug wrote: Ok, got another hang in siobi state (this time after it successfully completed the script). Here is

Re: more amd hangs: problem really in syslog?

1999-07-13 Thread Doug
On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: : : So I started thinking that maybe the problem was actually in :syslog (or amd's interface to it). So I disabled the following two options :in my amd.conf file: : :log_file = syslog:local7 :log_options =all : :

Re: more amd hangs: problem really in syslog?

1999-07-13 Thread Doug
On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Mike Smith wrote: After pounding on this some more with today's -current (prior to the MNT_ASYNC flag change) I got a lot more lockups that looked like this: On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Doug wrote: Ok, got another hang in siobi state (this time after it

Re: more amd hangs: problem really in syslog?

1999-07-13 Thread Mike Smith
On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Mike Smith wrote: After pounding on this some more with today's -current (prior to the MNT_ASYNC flag change) I got a lot more lockups that looked like this: On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Doug wrote: Ok, got another hang in siobi state (this time

Re: more amd hangs: problem really in syslog?

1999-07-13 Thread Matthew Dillon
:*.err;kern.debug;auth.notice;mail.crit /dev/console :*.notice;kern.debug;lpr.info;mail.crit;news.err /var/log/messages :mail.info /var/log/maillog :lpr.info/var/log/lpd-errs :cron.*

Re: more amd hangs: problem really in syslog?

1999-07-13 Thread Doug
On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Mike Smith wrote: 'siobi' is someone trying to open the serial console, for whatever reason. Without knowing who it was that was stuck there, it's hard to guess what is going on. D'uh, sorry. Long day. It was amd that was hung in the siobi state. No way to clear

Re: more amd hangs: problem really in syslog?

1999-07-13 Thread Doug
On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: Comment the whole thing out, kill -HUP the syslogd (or kill and restart it), and see if amd still locks up. Ok, now I think I get it. You want me to enable syslog'ing in amd, then do what you're talking about here. I will try this

Re: more amd hangs

1999-07-12 Thread Doug
On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Doug wrote: In my continuing efforts to get this freebsd box into shape for web hosting at my company (where it relies exclusively on NFS for retrieving customer data) I've been making progress thanks to some recent commits by Peter. Now I can run the heavy duty NFS

Re: more amd hangs

1999-07-12 Thread Doug
Ok, it's now wedged in a different state (using the same perl script to wedge it). According to top: 317 root2 0 648K 456K STOP 0 0:00 0.00% 0.00% amd I also managed to attach to the running process this time: (gdb) file /usr/sbin/amd Reading symbols from

Re: more amd hangs

1999-07-12 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On 10 Jul 1999 12:56:41 -0400, R. Matthew Emerson wrote: I thought that it was almost never proper to soft-mount rw filesytems. Am I mistaken about this? I must admit, it sounds like sensible advice. The only NFS exports which I have to rely on are read-only mounts. The only time I

Re: more amd hangs: in _start()

1999-07-12 Thread Doug
Ok, got another hang in "siobi" state (this time after it successfully completed the script). Here is the trace: (gdb) file /usr/sbin/amd Reading symbols from /usr/sbin/amd...done. (gdb) attach 155 Attaching to program: /usr/sbin/amd, process 155 0x8063dc4 in open () (gdb) where #0

Re: more amd hangs

1999-07-12 Thread Doug
On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Doug wrote: In my continuing efforts to get this freebsd box into shape for web hosting at my company (where it relies exclusively on NFS for retrieving customer data) I've been making progress thanks to some recent commits by Peter. Now I can run the heavy duty NFS

Re: more amd hangs

1999-07-12 Thread Doug
Ok, it's now wedged in a different state (using the same perl script to wedge it). According to top: 317 root2 0 648K 456K STOP 0 0:00 0.00% 0.00% amd I also managed to attach to the running process this time: (gdb) file /usr/sbin/amd Reading symbols from

Re: more amd hangs

1999-07-12 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On 10 Jul 1999 12:56:41 -0400, R. Matthew Emerson wrote: I thought that it was almost never proper to soft-mount rw filesytems. Am I mistaken about this? I must admit, it sounds like sensible advice. The only NFS exports which I have to rely on are read-only mounts. The only time I

Re: more amd hangs: in _start()

1999-07-12 Thread Doug
Ok, got another hang in siobi state (this time after it successfully completed the script). Here is the trace: (gdb) file /usr/sbin/amd Reading symbols from /usr/sbin/amd...done. (gdb) attach 155 Attaching to program: /usr/sbin/amd, process 155 0x8063dc4 in open () (gdb) where #0

Re: more amd hangs

1999-07-10 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Fri, 09 Jul 1999 12:00:52 MST, Doug wrote: The amd conf files are below, any insights or suggestions welcome. I can't remember whether it was you or someone else to whom I offered this advice not so recently, so forgive me if I've suggested this to you before. I've found that AMD

Re: more amd hangs

1999-07-10 Thread R. Matthew Emerson
Sheldon Hearn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've found that AMD exacerbates NFS-related problems. Since I moved away from AMD toward using proper NFS mounts (soft, interruptible, bg), the hassles I was having with NFS have gone away completely. I thought that it was almost never proper to

Re: more amd hangs

1999-07-10 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Fri, 09 Jul 1999 12:00:52 MST, Doug wrote: The amd conf files are below, any insights or suggestions welcome. I can't remember whether it was you or someone else to whom I offered this advice not so recently, so forgive me if I've suggested this to you before. I've found that AMD

Re: more amd hangs

1999-07-10 Thread R. Matthew Emerson
Sheldon Hearn sheld...@uunet.co.za writes: I've found that AMD exacerbates NFS-related problems. Since I moved away from AMD toward using proper NFS mounts (soft, interruptible, bg), the hassles I was having with NFS have gone away completely. I thought that it was almost never proper to