7.0-stable: a hung process - scheduler bug?

[Robert Watson]

On Tue, 23 Sep 2008, Mikhail Teterin wrote:

> Robert Watson написав(ла):
>> Could you try procstat -kk on the process, does that shed any light?
> When I was trying `procstat -k', I was getting the message:
>
>     PID    TID COMM             TDNAME             KSTACK 
> procstat: sysctl: kern.proc.kstack unavailable
>   procstat: options DDB or options STACK required in kernel
>
> That was with a single `-k'. I can't do anything now, because -- after an 
> attempt to start `systat 1 -vm' -- the system hosed and would not start new 
> processes. The existing ones, such as the cvs-over ssh are stuck in:
>
>   load: 0.00 cmd: ssh 59098 [proctree] 0.41u 0.17s 0% 0k

Sounds a lot like a lock leak/deadlock.  Other than DDB output or a crashdump, 
which would allow us to explore some more, there's probably not much to be 
done with the box at this point other than reset.  Sorry about that.

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge