FreeBSD 5.3 freezes under heavy hdd load
Brian Reichert
reichert at numachi.com
Mon Mar 7 13:05:41 PST 2005
On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 05:12:44PM +0000, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> It is necessary to increase KSTACK_PAGES (e.g. to 4) on machines with
> certain patterns of heavy disk write load to avoid double faults in
> the softupdates code (softupdates has potentially unbounded call stack
> and can overflow the default kernel stack size without too much
> effort).
Can these 'certain patterns' be characterized? I've got a system
that hangs on haavy rsync usage, where the file sizes can me measured
in a half-gig or more...
> This would cause panics though, not freezes.
I can't tell remotely if all of my hangs are panics, as it's a
remote box. Once, on the console of a hung box, I found
panic: worklist_remove: not on list
This box did not reboot of it's own accord, and has wedged again
under a similar workload...
> Kris
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