edwtjo
March 16th, 2010, 10:20
Ok, this thread is inspired by: Server stops responding.. (http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=12270)
Since it seemed somewhat related, a machine (8.0-RELEASE) which becomes unresponsive during the night.
My logs reveal nothing useful. I'm running ZFS with a normal swap partition on a MBR scheme.
A normal reboot remedies the situation and I have never gotten the system to become unresponsive while being interactive with it..
**edit: this might be an ACPI issue http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=3390
I think this is symptomatic of a live/dead-lock. I would say livelock since my CPU gets warm while being in its "unresponsive" state.
I found this:
X becomes unresponsive.. (http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-x11/2009-January/007084.html)
and I have X11 installed (but using i386) the similarity here is that my system hangs while X11 is being "locked" (using xtrlock). I'm unsure this applies since I cannot kill X11 or drop to console.
This could of course still be something not related to X11 but because of the symptom, only hangs while being in a locked state for a longer period. I believe it is either my locking program, window manager or x11 which is causing the problem.
My software stack is:
xtrlock (version 2.0)
xmonad 0.9.1
X.Org X Server 1.6.5
8.0-RELEASE
Since it seemed somewhat related, a machine (8.0-RELEASE) which becomes unresponsive during the night.
My logs reveal nothing useful. I'm running ZFS with a normal swap partition on a MBR scheme.
A normal reboot remedies the situation and I have never gotten the system to become unresponsive while being interactive with it..
**edit: this might be an ACPI issue http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=3390
I think this is symptomatic of a live/dead-lock. I would say livelock since my CPU gets warm while being in its "unresponsive" state.
I found this:
X becomes unresponsive.. (http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-x11/2009-January/007084.html)
and I have X11 installed (but using i386) the similarity here is that my system hangs while X11 is being "locked" (using xtrlock). I'm unsure this applies since I cannot kill X11 or drop to console.
This could of course still be something not related to X11 but because of the symptom, only hangs while being in a locked state for a longer period. I believe it is either my locking program, window manager or x11 which is causing the problem.
My software stack is:
xtrlock (version 2.0)
xmonad 0.9.1
X.Org X Server 1.6.5
8.0-RELEASE