debugging lockups
Don Lewis
truckman at FreeBSD.org
Thu Mar 4 20:10:05 PST 2004
On 4 Mar, vladimir at math.uic.edu wrote:
> Following up on my previous post from a couple of days ago with the
> same subject (unfortunately I don't have my original email, so this
> will probably start a new thread). A -CURRENT system (built on Mar 3,
> 2004) frequently locks up when typing "ps" or "w", in addition to when
> killing memory-intensive processes. The system locks up hard, and I
> cannot break into the debugger from the console, although the necessary
> options are compiled into the kernel.
This is a known problem. See the thread "sysctl spinning (was: Re: ps
Causes Hard Hang)".
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