On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 02:27:14AM +1200, Mark Davies wrote:
> On Friday 07 July 2006 01:21, Juergen Hannken-Illjes wrote:
> > Output of `ps -axl -N /netbsd -M core' is a good starting point.
> 
> Sorry I should have included that. Nothing leapt out at me:
> 
>   UID   PID PPID   CPU PRI NI  VSZ RSS WCHAN    STAT TTY        TIME COMMAND
[snip]
>     0   160    0     0 -20  0   52   0 temp     RWL  ?       0:00.00 ssh -e 
> non
>     0   161    0     0  -2  0   52   0 vnlock   RWL  ?       0:00.00 (nfsd)
>     0   162    0     0 -20  0   52   0 temp     RWL  ?       0:00.00 (nfsd)
>     0   163    0     0 -20  0   52   0 temp     RWL  ?       0:00.00 (nfsd)

Looks like an "out of memory situation".  WCHAN == "temp" is waiting for
memory (malloc type M_TEMP) to become available.  What gives
`vmstat -N /netbsd -M core -s' for "pages free"?
Do you use tempfs?

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Juergen Hannken-Illjes - hannken@eis.cs.tu-bs.de - TU Braunschweig (Germany)