FreeBSD 4.x, vinum and vrlock ...

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Monday, 31 January 2005 at 20:02:50 -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>
> What exactly does this mean?
>
> /proc/43414/status:rsync 43414 42774 23799 14838 5,1 ctty 1107214940,71735
> 3,779921 33,791868 vrlock 0 0 0,0,0,2,3,4,5,20,31 -
> /proc/43479/status:postgres 43479 144 144 144 -1,-1 noflags
> 1107214989,263828 0,0 1,63591 vrlock 70 70 70,70,70 -
> /proc/7/status:bufdaemon 7 0 0 0 -1,-1 noflags 1107140099,155 0,0 61,876619
> vrlock 0 0 0,0 -
> /proc/9/status:syncer 9 0 0 0 -1,-1 noflags 1107140099,192 0,0 259,373334
> vrlock 0 0 0,0 -

It looks like breakage from your MUA.   I've deleted the rest; it's
too painful.

> I seem to get it a fair amount when I'm starting up a jail, where
> the 'umount' in the start scripts just hangs there seemingly
> indefinitely ...

If you're talking about the vrlock state, it's used for locking bands
when updating striped plexes.  If it hangs around for any length of
time, it'll be a deadlock.  Have you been killing processes?  Has
anybody else seen this?

Greg
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