[OpenIndiana-discuss] system hang

[Michael Schuster]

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 13:54, Ben Taylor <bentaylor.solx86 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> LTNS

true :-)

>> you don't define "hang" - was it pingable (the usual "dead" vs "very,
>> very busy" test)? from your prstat output I'd guess "yes", but it's
>> only a guess :-)
>
> No, it's dead.  not pingable (wifi),

hmm ... I don't know wifi and wired (ether)net are comparable in this
respect. Can you re-try plugged into a wired network?


> and the console doesn't respond to
> keyboard or mouse.
>
>> tell us a little more about what you've tried/done so far to find out
>> what's going on.
>
> I'm doing a fairly large git fetch (qt) and it seems to hang while
> the merge is happening.
>
> I'm trying now to do the git fetch nice'd down 15 since it's clear
> that the git-index-pack is a pretty intensive process.

have you tried restricting its memory footprint ([u]limit or various
other of Solaris capabilities)?

good luck
Michael

> Ben
>
>>
>> HTH
>> Michael
>>>
>>> I managed to trap a prstat of the last minutes of uptime:
>>>
>>>   PID USERNAME  SIZE   RSS STATE  PRI NICE      TIME  CPU PROCESS/NLWP
>>>   988 bent      102M   94M run      0    0   0:08:20  96% git-index-pack/1
>>>   638 root       25M   13M sleep   59    0   0:00:29 0.9% fmd/27
>>>     5 root        0K    0K sleep   99  -20   0:00:10 0.3% zpool-rpool/136
>>>   766 gdm        95M   28M sleep   59    0   0:00:08 0.2% gdm-simple-gree/1
>>>   698 root      189M   67M sleep   59    0   0:00:07 0.1% Xorg/3
>>>   987 root     3656K 3148K cpu0    59    0   0:00:00 0.1% prstat/1
>>>   531 root       11M 4052K sleep   59    0   0:00:00 0.0% nscd/28
>>>   547 root     8396K 1968K sleep   59    0   0:00:00 0.0% automountd/4
>>>    75 root       14M 7916K sleep   59    0   0:00:02 0.0% nwamd/11
>>>    42 netcfg   4716K 3560K sleep   59    0   0:00:01 0.0% netcfgd/5
>>>   783 bent       13M 4736K sleep   59    0   0:00:00 0.0% sshd/1
>>>    45 root     3032K 1992K sleep   59    0   0:00:00 0.0% dlmgmtd/4
>>>   921 bent       13M 4720K sleep   59    0   0:00:00 0.0% sshd/1
>>>   764 gdm        87M   18M sleep   59    0   0:00:00 0.0% gnome-power-man/1
>>>
>>> Ideas?  this system was pretty much rock solid for years.
>>>
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>>
>>
>> --
>> regards/mit freundlichen Grüssen
>> Michael Schuster
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Michael Schuster