Strange 'hangs' with RELENG_9

[Claus Guttesen]

> Recently I updated my RELENG_8 to RELENG_9. Since then, the server hangs
> from time to time for 5 minutes. When I run a top in a remote terminal,
> I can see that it hangs so strong, that the clock hangs too. When it
> continues to run , the time continues from the when it 'hanged'. TCP
> connections are also dropped with timeout at that time. However, no
> kernel panic, and i can't see anything in the dmesg log too.
> ...
> /etc/make.conf, the kernel was compiled with this settings:
> CPUTYPE?=athlon64
>
> I'd highly appreciate any help, as I am clueless with this one.

It may not help at all, but you could try to change scheduler from ULE to BSD.

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regards
Claus

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