* Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> [080915 16:05]
wrote:> 2008/9/13 Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org>:
>
> >> Yes, it's multithreaded apache. This did help somewhat - when
I show threads in top
> >> I see that it's not actually stuck in umtxn - there's one
thread that
> >> consumes the CPU and it's apparently always running (in state
CPUx).
> >>
> >> PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE C TIME WCPU
COMMAND
> >> 7212 www 103 0 30340K 7932K CPU2 2 444:23 99.02% httpd
> >>
> >> I'm currently upgrading the system to 7-STABLE, to see if it
helps.
>
> It didn't help. Exactly the same symptom happened again. It looks like
> it happens a few days after the last system reboot. After it happens
> the first time, restarting Apache immediately produces one such
> "stuck" thread - it looks like some system state gets corrupted
over
> time.
>
> >> How do I pick what thread to backtrace in gdb?
> >
> > i think the command is 'info threads' or 'show
> > threads' then i think you just type
> > 'thread FOO' to select the thread.
>
> Both commands don't work / don't exist. Any others?
>
> (background: apache22-worker port, no mod_php, on 7.0 and 7-STABLE
> suddenly gets stuck at 100% CPU; the same setup worked on 6-STABLE.
> I'm looking for ideas)
I'm sorry, I really can't help at this point other than to look
through the documents myself to figure out how to do a backtrace/select
threads.
Give it a shot, and let us know and we can go further.
Apologies,
-Alfred