Chavdar Ivanov wrote:
2008/6/12 Steven M. Bellovin <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>:I've had two similar-sounding problems with a May 17 kernel. Once, there were *many* cron processes hung; additionally, postfix was wedged -- I couldn't even run 'mailq'. The second time -- is this different? -- I got a 'locking against myself' when simply copying a file system dump from the network to disk. This is on an i386.
I seem to remember similar but think it was fixed. I don't think biowait was occuring in that instance.
Right now BUILD-NetBSD script is hanging @ i386--netbsdelf-objcopy . . . biowait, but otherwise the machine is responsive. gdb cannot attach itself to the pid, though.
I updated an hour ago and tested a build tools on dom0 but same thing occurred. An amd64 domu of the same vintage as the dom0 I just updated completes the same invocation just fine.
Not sure if that indicates anything but at least domus are working fine. Sarton