----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jukka Marin" <jmarin@embedtronics.fi>
To: "NetBSD Users" <netbsd-users@NetBSD.org>; "Current Users" 
<current-users@NetBSD.org>
Cc: "Port-i386" <port-i386@NetBSD.org>
Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 6:16 AM
Subject: momentary freezes in -current


> A few times during the copy, the system froze completely and then
> woke up again.  When this happens, the system does not respond to
> ping, it doesn't update the systat display or do anything visible.
> During the copy, over 40 ping packets were lost.
>
> Once, systat compalined something about a dead timer and using another
> one (I couldn't save the message).
>
> I have seen pauses like this on my single-CPU i386 system running 2.0
> without raidframe, so this is not a new problem.  I'll try to do more
> testing when I get back to the new machine (it's kind of slow over
> GPRS).

Are softdeps turned on for the local mountpoints you are using? This sounds 
like what I and a few other were experiencing, see 
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-kern/2006/07/22/0007.html for an 
explanation of what's going on. Unfortunantly, it sounds like the solution 
is to turn off softdeps.  :(  I'm going to look at LFS as soon as I find 
some spare time.

>
>  -jm

-- 
Bob