vmstat 'b' (disk busy?) field keeps climbing ...

[Marc G. Fournier]

On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Kostik Belousov wrote:

> Yes, this looks like a deadlock. As I understand, that's on 6.1-STABLE ?

Yes, kernel sources, it seems, from May 25th, according to my /usr/src 
tree ...

> BTW, do you use snapshots ?

Not that I've explicitly enabled ...

> I think that without ddb access, diagnose and debug the problem would be 
> quite hard.

Would it be a simple matter of:

CTL-ALT-ESC
panic

to get it to dump core?  Or would more be involved?  Would a core dump 
even work?

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