FreeBSD not-so-stable

[The Hermit Hacker]

On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, William L Stube II wrote:

> Took another 6 days for the machine to start freaking out, so here is
> the slightly edited ps -auxl

'K, right off the bat, it looks like a whack of processes stuck in
inode ... something that plagued me alot until recently ... are you using
unionfs or nullfs in any way on these machines?  In my case, I was using
unionfs *and* nullfs ... as soon as I stop'd using nullfs (replaced it
with nfs), the problems appear to have disappeared ...

 > > Sorry for the size of the attachment.
>
> Bill
>
> Bosko Milekic wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 11:08:03AM -0500, William L Stube II wrote:
> >
> >>I have a FreeBSD 4.8-Release machine that I upgraded from a 4.5 or 4.4
> >>machine.  It works just great for about 9 days, then processes will not
> >>die.  It starts to become a problem when I can't kill processes, restart
> >>services, connections hang, and I can't reboot or shutdown, I have to do
> >>a hard reset.
> >>
> >>I can't really find anything in the logs to indicate what is giving me
> >>problems.  Any suggestions?
> >
> >
> >   They might be stuck in the kernel somewhere.  Show us 'ps <pid> -l' at
> >   least for the unkillable processes when this happens.
> >
> >
> >>Thanks,
> >>
> >>Bill
> >>
> >>Other Info:
> >
> > ...
> >
>

Marc G. Fournier                   ICQ#7615664               IRC Nick: Scrappy
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
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