misc/131290: How to completely freeze FreeBSD 7.1 under a non-privileged user

[Sergey S]

Help.

Thanks for your answer.

> I have tried your scripts and have not managed to reproduce the hang, even
> running the loop script without sleep.

It's very strange, because the bug is 100% reprodusable to me (on two
separate computers) :(

> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug-deadlocks.html

Thanks for your suggestion. I hope it will help.

> But I would recommend you to start from simpler techniques, e.g. running in
> parallel top and other system utilities and writing the output to the file for
> further investigation. Something like this:
>
> top -b -s1 -S -d1000 1000 > top.output &
> ./gistfile1.sh

I've done it. gzipped top.output is attached to this letter.

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Sergey