fetch hangs on 6/24/04 current build

[Conrad J. Sabatier]

On 25-Jun-2004 Robert Watson wrote:
> 
> It might be interesting to look at the following:
> 
> - Use sockstat/netstat to identify the fetch socket, and see whether
>   either the send of the receive queue contains some amount of
>   persistent, un-processed data.  This would suggest if the
>   application was stalling and not reading, or that TCP was stalling
>   and not sending.
> 
> - Use DDB to generate a stack trace of the fetch process in-kernel,
>   perhaps a few to see whether it's stuck in one place, and if so,
>   where.  This would tell us what it's stuck doing.
> 
> - Use ktrace to generate a trace of fetch and "see what it's doing"
>   when it appears to hang -- is it looping waiting for I/O, just
>   blocked in kernel, etc.

Good suggestions all.  Thanks, I'll try those.

Incidentally, it does seem to be working better this morning.  Perhaps
it *was* just an ISP glitch.

-- 
Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads at cox.net> -- "In Unix veritas"