RELENG 6.1/AMD64 system hangs when SMP enabled
Kris Kennaway
kris at obsecurity.org
Fri Oct 27 16:09:26 UTC 2006
On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 09:35:09AM +0200, bram wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm rather new to freebsd so forgive me if I am saying things that don't
> make sense.
>
> I have a dual opteron server running freebsd 6.1/amd64 updated 4 weeks ago.
>
> Since I moved to 6 I've been having tho following problem.
>
> When I put heavy load on the server (python scripts that take 20 minutes
> to complete) the server sometimes hangs.
>
> I can then not ping it anymore and it does not respond to anything (no
> keyboard power button etc.).
> Mostly there are no error messages or anything so I have no clue to what
> the problem is.
> One time it did give an error but I did not wrote it down, but as I
> recall it was something like SMP spin lock timed out.
>
> It hangs every three weeks
>
> Please give me some info on how I can get it to give more info or how to
> resolve this problem.
See the chapter on kernel debugging in the develpers handbook
Kris
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