Re: 2.5.2-pre1 dbench 32 hangs in vmstat "b" state

From: rwhron@earthlink.net
Date: Mon Dec 24 2001 - 17:14:11 EST

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On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 06:02:44PM +0100, Jens Axboe wrote:
>
> I would suspect that, do you get any kernel messages?

When the machine gets in this state, it won't save any files,
so kern.log doesn't have anything after the initial boot message.

> Please send ps -eo cmd,wchan info for a hung machine.
>
> --
> Jens Axboe

Strangely (to me anyway), when dbench 32 hangs the machine,
ps will not print anything. vmstat will continue it's 8
second cycle though.

-- Randy Hron

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