periodic, short freezes

[Zbigniew Szalbot]

Hello,

On Thu, 9 Nov 2006, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> How do you know the entire system is freezing instead of just the tty?
> :) If you have e.g. heavy disk write activity then the syncer will
> grab Giant while flushing periodically and delay other things that
> require Giant, like serial terminals.

I do not think that's the case. I have another box that works as a mail 
relay server that passes messages for exim under FBSD. Now when the freeze 
occurs, I check the relay server and it cannot connect to the FBSD box 
(both are on the same lan). That's why I think it is a general box freeze 
and not just a tty problem.

Thanks!


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Zbigniew Szalbot