Nope, there's no message on the console as far as I can tell.

The machine isn't hung when I type on the console after the network drops. I 
can still run commands.



On Tuesday, September 2nd, 2025 at PM 4:51, [email protected] 
<[email protected]> wrote:

> Quoth gnufan42 via 9fans [email protected]:
> 
> > I'm having a weird networking issue on 9front. Like the subject says, my 
> > Drawterm session will randomly freeze after some use, and after which the 
> > entire machine will lose network access - ip/ping will stop working, and 
> > hget will fail. Every time this happens I have to restart the machine. And 
> > here are things I've tried to try to find the cause:
> > 
> > First, I left the machine on for a whole day. Nothing happens, I can still 
> > connect to it.
> > Next, I think this might happen if the CPU is under heavy load, so I ran 
> > Doom on both the Drawterm and the Plan 9 console. Still nothing happens. 
> > After several hours Doom's demo is still playing inside Drawterm.
> > Then, I thought this might have to do with cwfs64x being unstable, so I 
> > tried to hammer the file server with this script on my Linux machine:
> > 
> > #!/bin/bash
> > tfile="$(mktemp -d /tmp/test.XXXXXXXXX)" || exit 1
> > # 9pfs from https://github.com/ftrvxmtrx/9pfs
> > 9pfs -p "$2" -u "$3" "$1" "$tfile"
> > if [ "$(stat -f -c %T $tfile)" != fuseblk ]; then
> > rmdir "$tfile"
> > exit 1
> > fi
> > max=20
> > for ((i = 0 ; i < max ; i++ )); do
> > echo "$i"/"$max"\:
> > tar -c "$tfile" | dd status=progress of=/dev/null
> > done
> > umount -l "$tfile"
> > rmdir "$tfile"
> > 
> > And it cannot even finish one round without freezing. But when I tried to 
> > restart the machine and run the script again, out of 4 times, every single 
> > time tar freezes (and the network stops working) after reading exactly 
> > 97013760 bytes like this:
> > 
> > 0/20:
> > tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
> > 2232832 bytes (2.2 MB, 2.1 MiB) copied, 2 s, 1.1 MB/star: 
> > /tmp/test.KhkGpOEiH/adm/keys: Cannot open: Permission denied
> > tar: /tmp/test.KhkGpOEiH/adm/keys.who: Cannot open: Permission denied
> > 95805952 bytes (96 MB, 91 MiB) copied, 65 s, 1.5 MB/s^C
> > 189480+0 records in
> > 189480+0 records out
> > 97013760 bytes (97 MB, 93 MiB) copied, 80.3674 s, 1.2 MB/s
> > 
> > However, just as me about to blame cwfs64x, I decided to try something 
> > else. I restarted the machine, and this time I run cat /dev/zero > 
> > /mnt/term/dev/null in Drawterm. Okay, nothing happens, the connection is 
> > still good after a few hours. But by chance I scrolled in a rio window and 
> > the whole thing immediately freezes. I also tried to replicate that, and 
> > yes, if I run cat /dev/random and rapidly scroll the window, it also 
> > triggers freezing.
> > 
> > I have no idea, really. I cannot pin down this being caused by cwfs64x. I 
> > also don't understand if it's truly cwfs64x's problem, how can it affect 
> > networking at all - it doesn't crash after me losing the Drawterm session. 
> > I can still run commands inside the Plan 9 Console, and all files are 
> > intact. Can somebody suggest me what to look at next?
> 
> 
> And there are no messages on the console? no stall error, or anything else?
> 
> when you walk up and type on the console, is the machine hung?
> 

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