FreeBSD not-so-stable

[Bosko Milekic]

On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 11:08:03AM -0500, William L Stube II wrote:
> I have a FreeBSD 4.8-Release machine that I upgraded from a 4.5 or 4.4 
> machine.  It works just great for about 9 days, then processes will not 
> die.  It starts to become a problem when I can't kill processes, restart 
> services, connections hang, and I can't reboot or shutdown, I have to do 
> a hard reset.
> 
> I can't really find anything in the logs to indicate what is giving me 
> problems.  Any suggestions?

  They might be stuck in the kernel somewhere.  Show us 'ps <pid> -l' at
  least for the unkillable processes when this happens.

> Thanks,
> 
> Bill
> 
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