Re: current unable to exec processes under load

2002-10-13 Thread Terry Lambert
Ollivier Robert wrote: > According to Kris Kennaway: > > load: 0.00 cmd: tcsh 8403 [inode] 0.01u 0.00s 0% 1076k > > The dreaded "inode" problem. I've been seeing this from time to time where the > system will be blocked for all I/O on a given disk with all processes waiting > on "inode". > > Ge

Re: current unable to exec processes under load

2002-10-13 Thread Ollivier Robert
According to Kris Kennaway: > load: 0.00 cmd: tcsh 8403 [inode] 0.01u 0.00s 0% 1076k The dreaded "inode" problem. I've been seeing this from time to time where the system will be blocked for all I/O on a given disk with all processes waiting on "inode". Generally updating the system to a more r

Re: current unable to exec processes under load

2002-10-13 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 12:12:43AM -0400, Jeff Roberson wrote: > Can you back out my scheduler changes just to be sure? I can not foresee > any way that they could cause this, but I'd like to be certain. Blocking > on inode usually indicates a vfs deadlock. Can you break into ddb and > type 'sh

Re: current unable to exec processes under load

2002-10-12 Thread Jeff Roberson
On Sat, 12 Oct 2002, Kris Kennaway wrote: > I'm having a strange problem with my -current box: I am running the > bfbtester port on system utilities, which basically forks 100 copies > of the binary at once to test different options. The problem is that > sometimes the -current system becomes una

Re: current unable to exec processes under load

2002-10-12 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 12:12:43AM -0400, Jeff Roberson wrote: > Can you back out my scheduler changes just to be sure? I don't think I'm running them: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT (ROT13) #1: Fri Oct 11 01:14:18 PDT 2002 > I can not foresee > any way that they could cause this, but I'd like to be certa

current unable to exec processes under load

2002-10-12 Thread Kris Kennaway
I'm having a strange problem with my -current box: I am running the bfbtester port on system utilities, which basically forks 100 copies of the binary at once to test different options. The problem is that sometimes the -current system becomes unable to fork *any* new processes, and even suspendin