vnlur_proc lockups under high disk I/O

[David Rhodus]

On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 19:01:51 +0000, Gary Allan
<dragonfly at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've been encountering total lockups under high disk I/O, this first
> happened when I extracted a pkgsrc tarball but is also happening when
> using cvsup to update ports and sources.
> 
> I've wiped /usr/src and /usr/obj and done a full buildworld today but it
> has had no effect. The machine only works in 'bursts', ~5 seconds of
> nothing followed by a few seconds of working normally. Sometimes the
> system completely locks up and displays the following diagnostics.
> 
> vnlru_proc: vnode recycler stopped working!
> vnlru_proc: vnode recycler stopped working!
> vnlru_proc: vnode recycler stopped working!
> ..
> 
> The file system is left in dire need of fsck on a reboot.
> 
> It's entirely likely that I'm responsible as I use the machine as a
> testing platform for just about everything.
> 
> Has anyone else had this problem? It's fairly reproducible so I can
> provide more information to anyone who wants it. Otherwise it's a fresh
> install of stable :)
> 
> Regards
> 
> Gary
> 

Can you post a dmesg output from that machine ?

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                                            -David
                                            Steven David Rhodus
                                            <drhodus at xxxxxxxxxxx>