questions on nonsleepable lock

[Ronnel P. Maglasang]

this is getting to be a serious problem in freebsd. i'm also encountering
the same panic problem. my box runs on freebsd 6.1 with ipfw, pf,
forwarding/routing enabled and several network-based applications. the panic
occurs when the system is subjected to a very high traffic load and some
applications are busy doing disk IO, system and socket calls.

i think this was already asked in this thread. i just want to clarify if
this problem is caused by user-applications (non-kernel). or possibly
a system/ioctl call from user-application. i don't see mtx_*, giant or mutex
use in any of my user-applications, so probably this is something underneath
the kernel.

also, is their a list or documentation of which freebsd application, 
program or
component has this problem?

thanks

Roman Divacky wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 05:10:48PM +0800, Nex Mon wrote:
>   
>> thanks for your reply.
>>
>> i didn't use WITNESS. it is disabled.
>>
>> is their a list a list of which locks are sleepable and non-sleepable
>> in FreeBSD6.2? is sleeping triggered by a call to "sleep", IO operation
>> or a result of context switching by kernel?
>>     
>
> all locks except sx and Giant are nonsleepable, sleeping can be triggered
> by calling foo_sleep() and/or by calling a sleeping function (like io etc.)
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