Processes blocked on getblk or ufs

[Robin P. Blanchard]

> I have a machine sitting at the ddb prompt in exactly this 
> state. Anyone know how to dig something useful out of the 
> current state the buffer cache is in?  I know how to find out 
> what vnodes are locked but don't know how to go from that to 
> see what underlying buffers are causing the problem.
> 
> I should be able to cause a dump of the machine as well but 
> it has 2Gb of memory in it so transferring the dump to 
> someone other than me who could look at it might be painful...

Well...I went ahead an induced a dump (where the 2650 has been wedged in
"getblk" since last installworld). Anyone want to take a look at it. It's a
1024M dump compressed to 171M.


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Robin P. Blanchard
Systems Integration Specialist
Georgia Center for Continuing Education
fon: 706.542.2404 < > fax: 706.542.6546
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