Subject: kern/35224: kernel hangs in mclpl after heavy net load in the sparc64 port (eventually also other ports)
To: None <kern-bug-people@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,>
From: None <stephan.pietzko@uni-konstanz.de>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 12/09/2006 21:50:00
>Number: 35224
>Category: kern
>Synopsis: daemons freeze in mclpl condition after lot of net traffic from netbsd-2 through netbsd-3
>Confidential: no
>Severity: critical
>Priority: high
>Responsible: kern-bug-people
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Sat Dec 09 21:50:00 +0000 2006
>Originator: Charlie Root
>Release: NetBSD-3
>Organization:
Admin of several NetBSD server at the university of konstanz
>Environment:
I use the the GENERIC-kernel on sparc64 on a sun Netra T1. This server is
a http-mirror for big files. I followed the netbsd-2 brach and had allways
the same problem and now i follow the netbsd-3 branch and still have the problem.
System: NetBSD nepal 3.1_STABLE NetBSD 3.1_STABLE (GENERIC) #0: Mon Nov 13 01:16:33 CET 2006 root@nepal:/usr/obj/sys/arch/sparc64/compile/GENERIC sparc64
Architecture: sparc64
Machine: sparc64
>Description:
The server has heavy net load (50-100% of a 100BaseT Interface all the time) and the daemon
freezes after some days in a unkillable condition (mclpl in top or ps). I followed
netbsd-2 and netbsd-3 without difference. I have the same problem with apache, thttpd
and lighttpd. I have to reboot the machine every some days. If the traffic is very high i
have to reboot two times a day.
>How-To-Repeat:
I think you just have to produce constant heavy net usage. I donno how to include more data or
infomation about this problem. I have no core dump or something else. These days the server is
serving a new Wikipedia-DVD-image and the machine is crashing once a day. I can give some
of the developers an account on this machine, if someone likes to verify the problem right on
this server.
>Fix: