Panic under heavy HTTP load?

[Henrik W Lund]

Subhro wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
> Can we have a package list i.e. the output of pkg_info?
> 
> Also can u provide ps -aux as root just before the box freezes.... or when
> it is expected to freeze?
> 
> In that case I would try to reproduce the same on some older hardware.
> 
> Subhro Sankha Kar
> Block AQ-13/1, Sector V
> Salt Lake City
> PIN 700091
> India

I've attached the package list as you required. The attached 
ps_aux_output shows the processes that were running the last time the 
freeze occurred. I was skipping back and forth in a track on xmms while 
mozilla and gtk-gnutella were just sitting there, and the system just froze.

The first time it froze, all of the same processes were running, except 
xmms, and I was browsing a webpage in mozilla (a webpage that was heavy 
on JavaScript), while gtk-gnutella was just sitting there.

However, while trying to reproduce the freeze, I downloaded several 
files from gtk-gnutella and browsed quite a bit without the freeze ever 
occuring. But when I whipped up xmms - boom, freeze. I've been doing 
some reading, and it seems that gtk-gnutella computes some sort of 
hashes for filenames when it's idle. Maybe this is where the error 
occurs? Rapid, successive calls to stat() maybe? I don't know...

If you need any more info, I'll provide what I can. I'll also continue 
trying to reproduce the freeze and report anything I think may be of 
relevance.

Something just occurred to me: my gtk-gnutella is linked with gtk2, not 
gtk1, which is the default. Maybe I should try to recompile and link 
with gkt1?

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Henrik W Lund