>Number:         17321
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       System freezes during heavy disk activity
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    kern-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Jun 19 04:24:00 PDT 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     
>Release:        NetBSD 1.6_BETA2
>Organization:
Matthias Scheler                                  http://scheler.de/~matthias/
>Environment:
System: NetBSD colwyn.zhadum.de 1.6_BETA2 NetBSD 1.6_BETA2 (COLWYN) #0: Sun Jun 16 17:16:40 CEST 2002 tron@colwyn.zhadum.de:/src/sys/compile/COLWYN i386
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:
For the third time my server freezed today. When system freezes I can still
"ping" it and switch between virtual console. But everything else e.g.
remote connections, NFS access or local login is dead. I cannt even get
a new prompt from "getty" if I press <RETURN>.

I tried to take a dump but it didn't work probably because the default
dump partition is too small. I've setup a new, bigger dedicated dump
partition, activated it with "swapctl -D" and verified that it works
now. If the problem happens again I'll provide a dump.

>How-To-Repeat:
Cause heavy disk activity on a system used as CVS server, NFS server, packet
filter and PPPoE router.

>Fix:
None provided.

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