Expensive timeout?

User Freebsd freebsd at hub.org
Thu Jun 29 02:23:32 UTC 2006


On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, Jonathan Noack wrote:

> Please don't top-post...
>
> User Freebsd wrote:
>> On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, User Freebsd wrote:
>>> Just got this on the console of one of hte servers that has been causing 
>>> problems ...
>>> 
>>> Expensive timeout(9) function: 0xc0520e18(0xc8b223a0) 0.296959250 s
>>> 
>>> not a very informative error, and that is all that was there, nothing 
>>> before, nothing after ...
>> 
>> Oh, wait, does this have something to do with the Deadlock options I just 
>> added to the kernel?
>
> Yes, if you look in /sys/kern/kern_timeout.c you'll note that the "Expensive 
> timeout(9) function" printf is inside an "#ifdef DIAGNOSTIC".

'k, but is this something that I should be concerned about, or just 
ignore?

----
Marc G. Fournier           Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org)
Email . scrappy at hub.org                              MSN . scrappy at hub.org
Yahoo . yscrappy               Skype: hub.org        ICQ . 7615664


More information about the freebsd-stable mailing list