periodic, short freezes

[Kris Kennaway]

On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 09:12:06AM +0100, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am running FBSD 6-1 stable with custom kernel. Occasionally I experience 
> short freezes - that is the machine stops to respond for a few seconds and 
> then happily starts to work again.
> 
> My general question is what log should I inspect or what debugging to turn 
> on to have some more info on what really happens? It does seem to happen 
> under bigger load (something like over 1) but I am not really sure if that 
> is the cause. Yesterday it ran for three hours with an average load 
> of over 2 and there was no freeze.
> 
> Many thanks in advance for guiding me in troubleshooting the issue.

Is your system swapping?  Monitor with top, swapinfo, etc.

Kris
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