On 2/22/13 8:47 AM, Mark Atkinson wrote:
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On 02/20/2013 11:36, Eugene M. Zheganin wrote:
Hi.
I have a bunch of FreeBSDs that hangs (and I really want to do
something to fight this). May be it's the zfs or may be it's the pf
(I also have a bunch of really stable ones, so it's hard to isolate
and tell). Since 9.x hang more often I suppose it's pf. I use
ichwd.ko and watchdogd to reboot a machine when it hangs. It works
pretty well; I'm also working on a various WITNESS/INVARIANTS stuff
and I'm trying to report it to gnats, but obviously it would be
much nicer if the system would panic and leave some debuggable core
after a hang (so far I don't have any, so I can only guess). I've
read about software watchdog in kernel and I doesn'y quite
understand: it's said that kernel software watchdog is able to
panic when a deadlock occurs. Can this be achieved with ichwd ?
Another one: as far as I understand ichwd reboots my machine on a
hardware level, right ? So am I right saying that software watchdog
can be, in theory, also deadlocked, thus, being kinda less reliable
solution ?
I just want to /metoo that I have 32bit/i386 box running zfs, pf and
- -current that is hardlocking randomly (usually has an uptime for a few
days to a couple weeks). SW_WATCHDOG won't fire when it locks so it
must be locking pretty fast.
I just noticed that ichwd will load on this box, so I'll try that
instead, but now I'm wondering if the SW_WATCHDOG kernel will
interfere or rather if watchdogd is smart enough to handle both?
watchdog(4) will arm all watchdogs.
watchdogd uses watchdog(4) so yes, both watchdogs (SW_WATCHDOG & ichwd)
should be armed.
This box used to occasionally panic on the ZFS stack panic so I did
the KSTACK_PAGES=4 change to the kernel and now it just hardlocks.
I'm not saying they are related.
Interesting. What is the default for KSTACK_PAGES?
Btw, from all I've heard less than 4GB ram + ZFS == you're gonna have a
bad time.
There are supposedly some ways to make it somewhat reliable by disabling
certain features, but I don't know the tricks off hand.
-Alfred
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